London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Enfield 1967

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Table: TABLE 54OPHTHALMIC CLINICS

TABLE 54

OPHTHALMIC CLINICS

Total attendances5,299
New cases700
Number of individual children seen2,699
Number of children who were prescribed glasses1,164

Table: TABLE 55ORTHOPTIC CLINICS

TABLE 55

ORTHOPTIC CLINICS

Total attendances2,231
New cases170
Number of individual children treated531
Number discharged:
Satisfactory with operation7
Satisfactory without operation 44
Cosmetic — Binocular vision improved 5
Binocular vision not improved23
79
Treatment not advised 1
Treatment discontinued :
Left school —
Left district18
Refused treatment3
Failed to attend 16
Referred elsewhere7
44

Table: TABLE 56 ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC

TABLE 56 ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC

Attendances at Orthopaedic Surgeon's Clinic110
Number of new cases seen by Orthopaedic Surgeon 54