Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table No. 41.—Corresponding to Table IV. appendix G of the 1916 Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education. Return showing the nature and number of defects referred for treatment, the number of visits and medical examinations made in connection therewith, and the extent to which remedial measures were carried out during 1917.
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. of defects not needing treatment. | School Clinic. | No. ot 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. | |||||||||||
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Brought forward from previous year. | New. | Total. | 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. | ||||||||
Clothing- | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Unsatisfactory | 1 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Footgear- Unsatisfactory | 0 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 80.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Cleanliness of Head - | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nits | 25 | 208 | 233 | 880 | 249 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 209 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 209 | 154 | 51 | 2 | 2 | 89.70 | 1 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
Pediculi | 30 | 763 | 793 | 2834 | 1217 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 756 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 767 | 599 | 156 | 1 | 11 | 96.72 | 1 | 16 | 17 | 27 |
Other Dirty Conditions | 1 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 66.67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cleanliness of Body- | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dirty | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pediculi | 1 | 31 | 32 | 59 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 96.88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fleabitten | 0 | 10 | 10 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nutrition— | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Below Normal | 1 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Bad | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |