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 1971
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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SCHOOL HEALTH
Table 50
Ophthalmic clinics
| Total attendances | 4,795 | |
| New cases | 667 | |
| Number of individual children seen | 2,269 | |
| Number of children who were prescribed glasses | 1,019 | |
| Table 51 Orthoptic clinics | ||
| Total attendances | 1,765 | |
| New cases | 71 | |
| Number of individual children treated | 378 | |
| Number discharged: | ||
| Orthoptically satisfactory with operation | 4 | |
| Orthoptically satisfactory without operation | 59 | 63 |
| Number discharged not orthoptically satisfactory but: | ||
| 1. Intermittent Binocular Single Vision | 6 | |
| 2. Appearance satisfactory: | ||
| (a) with improved visual acuity | 7 | |
| (b) without improved visual acuity | 5 | |
| Number discharged but treatment not completed: | ||
| (a) Left district | 7 | |
| (b) Failed to attend | 4 | |
| (c) Referred elsewhere | 1 | 30 |
| Number of appointments made and not kept | 585 | |
| Table 52 Orthopaedic clinic | ||
| Total attendances at Orthopaedic Surgeon's Clinic | 73 | |
| Number of new cases seen by Orthopaedic Surgeon | 41 | |
| Number of cases discharged | 37 | |