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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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Table: T able N o. 41—(continued).

T able N o. 41—(continued).

Conditions.No. of defects found for which treatment was considered necessary.No. of visits made on account of these defects.No. of Medical Examinations made on account of these defects.No. of defects for which no report is available.No. 01 defects treated.Results of Treatment.Percentage of defects treated.No. of defects not treated.Total No. of defects under observation at end of year and carried forward to succeeding year.
Carried forward from previous year.New.Total.School Clinic.Home (i.e., under supervision of Medical staff of Authority).Voluntary Hospital or other charitable Institution.Infirmary or Poor Law.Private Practitioner.Total.Remedied.Improved.Unchanged.Under observation at end of year (result of treatment not known at end of year).Removed from observation.Still under observation at end of year.Total.
Lung's—
Chronic Bronchitis and Bronchial Catarrh6697522081022141367S48180797.330118
*Tuberculosis...............................................................
Tuberculosis Suspected431351852120010164300178585.711237
Other DiseaseI161776100061916732494.121014
Nervous System
Epilepsy0661820003014031066.672020
Chorea52328163260041517271170996.4301110
Other Disease7202792160031705258132292.592022
Skin-
Ringworm—Body Ringworm—Head822973791337113662555615038364299515996.0418967
Impetigo32651683267825865531620666645885402297.2201335
Scabies10232242125723712125521472271911002693.801131439
Other Disease929430310321092191584625928419158251093.731071717
Rieketts—
Slight Marked0441440002002020050.002020

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* One case was notified by the Assistant School Medical Officer during the year, and was dealt with as a notifiable infectious disease.