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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

Finchley 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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Table: Table V. Details for each Department of Defects found at time of Medical Inspection by the Medical Officer.

Table V. Details for each Department of Defects found at time of Medical Inspection by the Medical Officer.

School and Department.No. of children examined.Tonsils moderately enlarged.Tonsils much enlarged.Obvious Adenoids.Mouth Breathers.Operation before inspection for Tonsils & Adenoids.Enlarged glands, not tubercular.Under-nourished.Anaemia & Debility.Evidence of old Rickets.Uncleanliness.External Eye Disease.Squint.Slight defect of Vision, not worse than 6-9th.Defective Vision, worse than 6-9th.Wearing spectacles.Otorrhœa.Deafness.Bronchial Catarrh.Rhinitis and Nasal Catarrh ("Cold").Functional Heart Disease.Organic Heart Disease.Skin Disease.Ringworm.Mumps.Chicken Pox.Whooping Cough.Measles.Tuberculous Diseases.Congenital Defects.Mentally Dull.Mentally Defective.Goitre.Infantile Paralysis.Defective Speech.Incontinence of Urine.Hernia ("Rupture").Epilepsy.Chorea.Spinal Curvature.Cretinism.Nephritis.Other Defects.
Nits.Flea-bitten.Dirty body.Dirty clothing.Phthisis.Tuberculous Spine.Tubercular Glands.Old Scars of ditto.Lupus.
S.L.C.S.—Boys4462458...21...............31351...4...211....................................2.........1......1...............
Girls73743213132...2061...21276...1......11.................................1..................1..................
Infants14925911312263...245...252.........12213124.....................2......1............3........................
L.L.C.S.-Boys481044......12......621...3...151....................................1............1............1........................
Girls321055......32......3432...214141..........................................1................................................
Infants......................................................................................................................................................
A.S.C.S. —Boys44521...012......4......1......232...................................................1.........11........................
Girls62141......51......2534.........945......1....................................................................................
Infanta37...21......11......102..................1111...11...........................................................................
CH.C.V.S. —Boys2642221...1......12...2......1...1.............................................................................................
Girls2421121............51......2...311.........121................................................2........................
Infants40722222......1851...2...............1...4......1..........................................1...........................
H.T.V.S.—Boys457223......12..................1321.........1......................................................3...1..................
Girls4554131...44...1321...1...476...3...1.................................................................................
Infants75842122.........141......41......12......41...41...........................1............2........................
Totals7949747392342182512l164321052473248274124267691............1...3......52......213...21...............
Approximate percentage of the children examined...12.25.94.92.95.32.23.01.5.l20.64.01.2.63.0.84.06.03.1.51.5.53.0.8.71.1.1.............1....36.......6.2......21.6....2.1...............