[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden] page 62

Willesden 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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Causes of Absence.	P.F.B.	P.F.G.	P.F.I.	F.R.S.M.	F.R.J.M.	F.R.I.	D.H.I.	Total
Causes of Absence.	No. of attendances lost.	No. of attendances lost.	No. of attendances lost.	No. of attendances lost.	No. of attendances lost.	No. of attendances lost.	No. of attendances lost.	No. of attendances lost.
Chorea and other diseases of the nervous system	229	177	45	—	179	—	73	703
Accidents and injuries	191	11	123	230	88	302	194	1,139
Convalescent homes, etc.	87	100	36	170	—	—	135	528
Other illness:—
Rash	17	—	—	—	—	10	—	27
Internal pains and appendicitis	178	32	—	—	—	—	—	210
Hernia, appendicitis kidney, etc.	—	—	—_	—	255	—	—	255
Abscess	47	—	—	—	—	164	—	211
Delicate	—	—	—	—	—	952	—	952
Headache	—	56	—	—	—	13	—	69
Peritonitis	—	124	—	—	—	—	—	124
Poisoned thumb and knee	—	55	—	—	—	—	—	55
Bilious attacks	—	26	—	—	—	—	73	99
Diarrhœa	—	8	—	—	—	—	—	8
Leg	—	62	—	—	—	—	—	62
Feet, chilblains, etc. Phlebitis	—	87	81	—	—	—	—	87 81
Vaccination	—	—	—	—	—	10	—	10
"Not well," (mostly days & half-days)	498	191	—	273	68	664	—	1,694
Attendances at Hospitals (disease not stated)	74	74	25	—	20	183	1	377
Attendances at Clinics (diseases not stated)	—	18	—	—	176	—	—	194
Uncleanliness	—'	330	—	140	170	91	131	862
Total	3,649	5,055	5,379	3,346	3,956	6,872	4,107	32,364
2. Illness in the Home. Compulsorily under regulations (e.g. as contact with scarlet fever or diphtheria	182	419	273	306	214	323	104	1,821
Not under regulations (needed at home owing to illness, mother ill, etc.)	143	341		504	28	274	66	1,356
Total	325	760	273	810	242	597	170	3,177
3. Unconnected with Illness (as far as ascertained). Country holidays, etc.	494	485	446	1,684	82	1,354	789	5,334
Religious holidays, Jewish, Mass, etc.	—	4	—	—	—	26	—	30
To give evidence in police court	—	4	—	—	—	—	—	4
Weather	—	—	—	—	—	571	10	581
No boots	101	112	—	—	28	76	11	328
Visiting Zoo	—	—	—	—	—	67	—	67
Visiting Cenotaph	—	—	—	—	—	260	—	260
Weddings	—	—	—	—	—	4	—	4
Out with mother	—	—	—	—	—	23	52	75
Helping mother (not due to illness)	—	625	—	—	—	—	—	625