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. | 1261 | 1170 | 2431 | ... | |
Clothing | Satisfactory | 1226 | 1142 | 2368 | 97.4 |
Unsatisfactory | 35 | 28 | 63 | 2.5 | |
Footgear | Satisfactory | 1212 | 1117 | 2329 | 95.8 |
Unsatisfactory | 49 | 53 | 102 | 4.1 | |
Cleanliness of head | Clean | 1175 | 838 | 2013 | 82.8 |
Nits | 72 | 319 | 391 | 16.0 | |
Pediculi | 14 | 13 | 27 | 1.1 | |
Cleanliness of body | Clean | 1177 | 1079 | 2256 | 92.8 |
Flea-bitten and Dirty | 74 | 78 | 152 | 6.2 | |
Pediculi | 12 | 13 | 25 | 1.0 | |
Nutrition | Excellent | 29 | 30 | 59 | 2.4 |
Normal | 1055 | 1014 | 2069 | 85.1 | |
Below Normal | 162 | 111 | 273 | 1.1 | |
Bad | 15 | 15 | 30 | 1.2 | |
Nose and Throat | No defect | 1000 | 915 | 1915 | 78.7 |
Mouth Breathers | 15 | 4 | 19 | 0.7 | |
Tonsils slightly enlarged | 60 | 50 | 110 | 4.5 | |
Tonsils much enlarged | 117 | 99 | 216 | 8.8 | |
Adenoids slight | 28 | 15 | 43 | 1.7 | |
Adenoids marked | 41 | 38 | 79 | 3.2 | |
Other affections | 22 | 12 | 34 | 1.0 | |
External Eye Disease | No disease | 1246 | 1150 | 2396 | 98.5 |
Blepharitis | 10 | 13 | 23 | 0.9 | |
Conjunctivitis | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0.1 | |
Corneal Opacity | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0.2 | |
Other disease | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0.2 | |
Ear Disease | No disease | 1254 | 1154 | 2408 | 99.0 |
Obstruction Right | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0.2 | |
Left | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.1 | |
Otorrhœa Right | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0.3 | |
Left | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0.2 | |
Other disease | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Teeth | Sound | 283 | 308 | 591 | 24.3 |
Less than four Decayed | 520 | 459 | 979 | 40.2 | |
Four or more Decayed | 453 | 394 | 847 | 34.8 | |
Sepsis | 5 | 10 | 15 | 0.6 |