Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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TABLE
Return Showing the Physical
Condition. | Entrants. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boys. | Girls. | Total. | Per Cent. | ||
Total Inspected. | 1185 | 1141 | 2326 | ... | |
Clothing | Satisfactory | 1130 | 1125 | 2255 | 98.9 |
Unsatisfactory | 55 | 16 | 71 | 3.0 | |
Footgear | Satisfactory | 1110 | 1097 | 2207 | 94.8 |
Unsatisfactory | 75 | 44 | 119 | 5.1 | |
Cleanliness of head | Clean | 1095 | 802 | 1897 | 81.5 |
Nits | 88 | 338 | 426 | 18.3 | |
Pediculi | 2 | 1 | 3 | 01 | |
Cleanliness of body | Clean | 1040 | 990 | 2036 | 87.5 |
Flea-bitten | 137 | 147 | 284 | 12.2 | |
Pediculi | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0.2 | |
Nutrition | Excellent | 43 | 40 | 83 | 3.5 |
Normal | 808 | 846 | 1714 | 73.6 | |
Below Normal | 256 | 238 | 494 | 21.2 | |
Bad | 18 | 17 | 35 | 1.5 | |
Nose and Throat | No defect | 834 | 813 | 1647 | 70.1 |
Mouth Breathers | 49 | 48 | 97 | 4.1 | |
Tonsils slightly enlarged | 67 | 75 | 142 | 6.1 | |
Tonsils much enlarged | 157 | 158 | 315 | 13.5 | |
Adenoids slight | 19 | 32 | 51 | 2.1 | |
Adenoids marked | 38 | 51 | 89 | 3.8 | |
Other affections | 33 | 22 | 55 | 2.3 | |
External Eye Disease | No disease | 1151 | 1116 | 2267 | 97.4 |
Blepharitis | 25 | 10 | 35 | 1.5 | |
Conjunctivitis | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.1 | |
Corneal Opacity | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0.3 | |
Other disease | 5 | 8 | 13 | 0.5 | |
Ear Disease | No disease | 1157 | 1115 | 2272 | 97.6 |
Obstruction Right | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0.3 | |
Left | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0.3 | |
Otorrhœa Right | 17 | 18 | 35 | 1.4 | |
Left | 15 | 16 | 31 | 1.3 | |
Other disease | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.04 | |
Teeth | Sound | 247 | 247 | 494 | 21.2 |
1.8 Decayed | 431 | 414 | 845 | 36.3 | |
More than 4 Decayed | 461 | 454 | 915 | 39.3 | |
Sepsis | 46 | 26 | 72 | 30.9 |