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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 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Table: TABLE 52 OPHTHALMIC CLINICS

TABLE 52 OPHTHALMIC CLINICS

Total attendances4,731
New cases581
Number of individual children seen2,636
Number of children who were prescribed glasses1,050

Table: TABLE 53 ORTHOPTIC CLINICS

TABLE 53 ORTHOPTIC CLINICS

Total attendances1,751
New cases61
Number of individual children treated383
Number discharged:
Orthoptically satisfactory with operation5
Orthoptically satisfactory without operation25
Not orthoptically satisfactory but:— 30
1. Intermittent Binocular single vision5
2. Appearance satisfactory
(a) with improved visual acuity15
(b) without improvement in visual acuity7
3. Treatment not completed
(a) Left school—
(b) Left district28
(c) Failed to attend10
(d) Referred elsewhere10 — 75

Table: TABLE 54 ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC

TABLE 54 ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC

Attendances at Orthopaedic Surgeon's Clinic Number of new cases seen by Orthopaedic Surgeon127 58