Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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MEDICAL TREATMENT
Skin: Ringworm (i) Scalp | 1 |
(ii) Body | — |
Impetigo | 11 |
Other | 1,845 |
Eye Disease | 183 |
Ear Defects | 137 |
Miscellaneous | 1,693 |
Total Attendances at Minor Ailment Clinics | 16,216 |
Number of Special Inspections at Minor Ailment Clinics | 2,791 |
Number of other Special Inspections | 498 |
Number of Re-examinations | 1,841 |
Freedom from Infection examinations prior to school journeys | 1,214 |
Total attendances | 1,089 |
New cases | 296 |
Number of individual children seen | 697 |
Number who received treatment at clinics | 145 |
Number referred for Tonsillectomy and/or Adenoidectomy | 120 |
Total attendances | 5,526 |
New Cases | 644 |
Number of individual children seen | 2,867 |
Number of children who were prescribed glasses | 1,097 |
Total attendances | 2,062 | |
New cases | 228 | |
Number of individual children treated | 536 | |
Number discharged— | ||
Satisfactory with operation | 6 | |
Satisfactory without operation | 50 | |
Cosmetic—Binocular vision improved | 5 | |
Binocular vision not improved | 20 | |
81 | ||
Treatment discontinued— | ||
Left school | 3 | |
Left district | 29 | |
Refused treatment | 6 | |
Failed to attend | 25 | |
Referred elsewhere | 5 | |
68 |