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4. MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The number of children who received full routine medical inspections for
all groups during the year 1944 was 4057.
The analysis of the age groups was as follows :—
Entrants 968
Second Age Group 2,358
Third Age Group 731
5. FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.
(a) Malnutrition.
The following table shows the classification of nutrition for children
inspected in the routine age groups during the year 1944 :—
Number Inspected A. B. C. D.
4,057 610 2,728 707 12
(b) Cleanliness.
The cleansing of heads and the treatment of scabies continued to be
carried out at the Town Hall Inspection Clinic. Scabies reached very high
proportions during the year.
(c) Minor Ailments and Diseases of the Skin.
The only Clinic in this district for the treatment of Minor Ailments is at
Croyland Road. The attendances for 1944 were 16,040.
(d) Visual Defects and External Eye Diseases.
The clinic for the treatment of visual defects was held, as usual, at the
Central Hall, Fore Street, N.9.
Statistics are given at the back of this report.
(e) Nose and Throat Defects
and
(/) Ear Diseases and Defective Hearing.
Mr. William Ibbotson attended the Aural Clinic at the Croyland Road
Clinic twice each month. The yearly attendances were :—
New Cases : 188. Old Cases : 197. Total 385.
Children recommended for the removal of their tonsils and/or adenoids
were admitted to the E.M.S. Hospital at Barley Lane, Goodmayes, and the
Northern Hospital, Winchmore Hill, N.21.
The number of children who received operative treatment during 1944
was 93.
Arrangements were also made for children to see the Specialist at the
North Middlesex County Hospital, when parents preferred this, and the number
of operations carried out there during 1944 was 61.
Cases of speech defects were dealt with by the Speech Therapist, and the
following is an account of the year's work :—
"The speech clinic continued throughout 1944 holding four sessions per
week even during the height of the 'flying bomb ' period; attendances were
naturally very low during the latter half of June and July but those children
who did attend benefitted from the individual treatments which the therapist
was able to give them. It is to be regretted that the number of discharges
shows a decrease on last year's figure but this is explained by the following
(a) Thirty-two children who were attending prior to June 14th have not
been seen since, of these only five are actually known to have been
evacuated. We have adopted the plan of only partly filling the
vacancies so caused in order to minimise the possibility of being
unable to re-admit regular attendants returning from evacuation.
We have admitted the more serious cases from the waiting list,
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