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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
Willesden 1916
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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CERTAIN STATISTICAL DATA.
| No. of Public Elementary Schools at December, 1916 | 32 | ||
| No. of School Departments at December, 1916 | 76 | ||
| No. of Children on School Rolls at June, 1916 | 24,536 | ||
| No. of Ailing Children examined at the Schools | 1,757 | ||
| Total No. of Children reterred for "following up" during 1916 | 5,343 | ||
| Total No. of Defects "followed up" during 1916 | 6,010 | ||
| Total No. of Defects for which treatment was obtained during 1916 | 5,460 | ||
| Maximum daily | Average daily | Total | |
| Attendances at Ringworm Clinic | 46 | 27 | 1,199 |
| Attendances at Eye Clinic | 84 | 42 | 5,444 |
| Attendances at Inspection Clinic (Municipal Offices) | 64 | 36 | 1,612 |
| Attendances at Inspection Clinic (Leopold Road) | 45 | 32 | 1,419 |
| Total | - | - | 9,674 |
| No. of Physically Defective Schools | 1 | ||
| No. of Mentally Defective Schools | 2 | ||
| No. of Children attending Special Schools :— | In Willesden | Outside Willesden | Total |
| Blind and partially blind | 21 | 17 | 19 |
| Deaf | 0 | 20† | 20 |
| Mentally defective | 105‡ | 1§ | 106 |
| Epileptic | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Physically defective | 57 | 4 | 61 |
| Total | 164 | 48 | 212 |
*Also mentally defective and
attending mentally defective
school in Willesden.
†One also mentally defective
and_attending mentally defective
school outside Willesden.
†Two are blind or partially
blind.
§Also deaf.