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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
Leyton 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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TABLE IV.—T reatment ok D efects of C hildren during 1915.
| Condition. | No. of defects found for which Treatment was considered necessary. | No. of defects for which no report is available. | No. of defects treated. | Results of Treatment. | No. of defects not treated. | Percentage of defects treated. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From previous year. | New. | Total. | Remedied | Improved. | Un-changed. | |||||
| Nutrition | — | 9 | 9 | 6 | 2 | — | 2 | — | 1 | 22.2 |
| Nose and Throat | 172 | 256 | 428 | 98 | 138 | 119 | 10 | 9 | 192 | 32.2 |
| External Eye Disease | 4 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 13 | 11 | — | 2 | 2 | 65.0 |
| Ear Disease | 6 | 44 | 50 | 21 | 27 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 54.0 |
| Teeth | 12 | 15 | 27 | 7 | 7 | 7 | — | — | 13 | 25.9 |
| Heart and Circulation | 16 | 134 | 150 | 69 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 58 | 15.3 |
| I.ungs | 8 | 40 | 48 | 22 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 33.3 |
| Nervous System | 2 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 6 | 14.2 |
| Skin | 1 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 1 | .— | — | 75.0 |
| Rickets | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Deformities | — | 9 | 9 | 4 | 3 | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | 33.3 |
| Tubercu losis— Non-Pulmonary | 1 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 5 | — | 4 | 1 | — | 45.4 |
| Speech | — | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 28.5 |
| Mental Condition | 1 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 9 | 6.2 |
| Vision and Squint | 142 | 420 | 562 | 86 | 371 | 367 | — | 4 | 105 | 66.0 |
| Hearing | 12 | 18 | 30 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 40.0 |
| Miscellaneous | 7 | 38 | 45 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 46.6 |
| Totals | 384 | 1,058 | 1,442 | 365 | 655 | 565 | 49 | 41 | 422 | |
Cases of uncleanliness are referred to the Inspection Clinic.
The above table includes a number of children who needed to be kept under observation, but whose defects not being acute or active were
not in need of immediate treatment. To this extent the statement does not do full justice to the work carried out by the School Medical Officials.