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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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Dentures supplied—
Full upper and lower 3
Partial upper and lower 1
Full upper 6
Full upper and partial lower 3
Partial upper 2
Partial lower 1
16
Orthopaedic Treatment.
Primary Examinations.—During the year 42 children were
referred from the Infant Welfare Clinics to the Council's Orthopsedio
Surgeon. The orthopaedic defects included :—
Congenital.
Torticollis . 4
Spastic hemiplegia 2
Deformity digit (foot) 1
Facial paralysis 1
Talipes 2
Hemihypertrophy 2
Intra-uterine constriction forearm 1
Acquired.
Genu valgum 11
„ varum 1
Bowed tibiœ 11
Bowed femora 1
Genu recurvatum 1
Pes piano valgus 16
Re-examinations.—In addition to the 42 new cases mentioned
above, 65 children under five years of age attended for re-examination
by the Orthopaedic Surgeon.
Treatment.—Eighty children made 388 attendances at
Knotts Green Special School for special treatment by the Council's
Masseuse (Miss Findlay).