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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 1970

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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SCHOOL HEALTH

Table: Table 51

Table 51

Total attendances4,802
Ophthalmic clinics New cases594
Number of individual children seen2,707
Number of children who were prescribed glasses1,004

Table: Table 52

Table 52

Total attendances1,610
Orthoptic clinics New cases48
Number of Individual children treated346
Number discharged:
Orthoptically satisfactory with operation2
Orthoptically satisfactory without operation5254
Number discharged not orthoptically satisfactory but:
1. Relief of symptoms1
2. Intermittent Binocular Single Vision11
3. Appearance satisfactory: (a) with improved visual acuity14
(b) without improved visual acuity5
Number discharged but treatment not completed :
(a) Left school1
(b) Left district9
(c) Failed to attend7
(d) Referred elsewhere957
Number of appointments made and not kept638

Table: Table 53

Table 53

Total attendances at Orthopaedic Surgeon's Clinic115
Orthopaedic clinic Number of new cases seen by Orthopaedic Surgeon70
Number of cases discharged63