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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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| Number of children attending for nasal obstruction and catarrh | 26 | ||
| Number of children attending for sinusitis and deflected nasal septum | 8 | ||
| Number of children attending for other reasons (e.g. nose bleeding, hoarse voice, injury to nose, wax in ears, and allergic rhinitis) | 10 | ||
| Treatment and referrals— | |||
| Referred for operation | 25 | ||
| Referred for X-ray of sinuses | 26 | ||
| Referred for antral lavage | 8 | ||
| Referred for pure tone audiometry | 6 | ||
| Referred for hearing aid | 1 | ||
| Referred for cauterisation | 2 | ||
| Referred for politzerisation | 1 | ||
| Follow up after removal of tonsils and adenoids, and adenoids | 13 | ||
| Follow up after other operations | 5 | ||
| Number of children for which no treatment required | 27 | ||
| Number of children discharged during year | 27 | ||
| Speech Clinic: | |||
| Boys | Girls | Total | |
| Number of children at present undergoing treatment | 47 | 25 | 72 |
| Number of children discharged during 1955 | 24 | 13 | 37 |
| Number of cases treated daily (average) | 14 | ||
| Number of homes visited | 59 | ||
| Number of School Departments visited | 31 | ||
| Number of parents interviewed | 132 | ||
| Number of children referred to other clinics | 13 | ||
| Number of new cases | 62 | ||
| Number of children re-admitted | — | ||
| Number of children who left before cured or discharged | 8 | ||
| Total number of attendances | 2,052 | ||
| Number of children referred who were found not to require treatment | |||
| Number of children under observation but not attending | 94 | ||
| Child Guidance Clinic: | |||
| Number of cases referred to the Clinic | 47 | ||
| Number of cases diagnosed at the Clinic | 45 | ||