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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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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Treatments and Investigations Recommended.
| Removal of tonsils and adenoids | 34 |
| X-ray of sinuses | 19 |
| Politzeration | 14 |
| Medication | 31 |
| Pure tone audiometry | 3 |
| Other types of treatment, observation and investigation | 41 |
| Investigations and Treatment carried out on other cases during the Year. | |
| Pure tone audiometry | 10 |
| Politzerations | 12 |
| X-rays of sinuses | 7 |
| X-rays of chest | 3 |
| Antral lavage | 8 |
| Polypi removed | 2 |
| Cauterisations | 3 |
| Hearing aid ordered | 1 |
| Total number of tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies recommended in the year | 56 |
| Number of operations performed by E.N.T. Specialist | 23 |
| Number of adenoidectomies recommended | 8 |
| Number of operations performed | 2 |
18 cases of deafness were cured or improved.
11 cases of otitis media cured or improved.
33 cases discharged as requiring no further treatment.
No report from the E.N.T. Specialist himself could be obtained
owing to several changes of staff during the year.
HANDICAPPED PUPILS.
Under Section 34 of the Education Act, 1944, it is the duty of
the Local Education Authority to ascertain what children in their
area require special educational treatment; and the Minister of
Education has laid down, in the Handicapped Pupils Regulations,
the several categories of pupils who are considered to require such
special educational treatment. The children affected are those
considered to be Blind, Partially Sighted, Deaf, Partially Deaf,
Delicate, Diabetic, Educationally Sub-normal, Epileptic, Maladjusted,
Physically Handicapped, and Pupils suffering from
Speech Defects of a severe degree.