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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 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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| Unfavourable Symptoms. | Progress as regards special Symptoms. | Influence of treatment on Catarrhal Conditions. | Parents Statements, Sleep, Appetite, Energy, etc. | Teachers Report Brightness and Alertness, etc. | Total period of treatment. | Result. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Much improved | - | Improved | Average in intelligence and alertness. | 4 months | Improved. |
| - | Improved | - | Improved when having treatment. | Has not made any progress since Sunlight treatment. Has been more backward with lessons. | 9 months with interval of 4 months. | Improved. |
| — | Improved | - | Improved | Non-Scholar | 8 months | Improved. |
| Doing well | — | Improved | Naturally bright intelligent child, no difference in spite of absences due to illness | 7 months | Improved. | |
| — | Much better | - | Improved | Non-scholar | 8 months | Greatly Improved. |
| - | Improved | - | Improved | Non-scholar | 6 months | Legs satisfactory. No other signs of Rickets. |
| — | Improved | - | Improved | Improved generally | 5 months | Satisfactory. |
| — | Improved | — | Condition improved. | Much improved, more intelligent. | 7 months | Improved. |
| — | Improved | - | Improved | Non-scholar | 6 months | Satisfactory. |
| — | Improved | — | Failed to attend for discharge. | Non-scholar | 5 months | — |
| - | Improved | - | Improved | - | 2 months | Removed from district 4.2.29. |
| — | — | — | Improved | Non-scholar | 3 months | Has done well |
| — | Improved | — | Improved | Non-scholar | 3 months | Improved. |
| — | Improved | — | Improved | Non-scholar | 3 months | Improved. |
| — | — | Improved | — | Improved generally | 2 months | Has done well |
| - | -Improved | - | Seems to get cold after treatment. | Looking better and much brighter. Mentally the same, rather slow. | 6 months | - |
| - | Improved | - | Improved | Excessive energy and over restless since. Light treatment. Difficult to manage. | 5 months | - |
| - | No more headaches | - | General health improved. | Boy very bright and has been top of his class since September. | 6 months | Good. |
| - | Improved | - | Treatment discontinued Child away in country. | - | 5 months | - |
| - | Improved | - | Improved. Mother ill, unable to continue | Non-scholar | 5 months | Good. |
| - | Improved | - | Satisfied | Irregular attendance | 3 months | Cured. |
| — | — | — | Much better | Decided improvement | 3 months | Improved. |
| - | Glands smaller | - | Improved | Originally very backward although an intelligent boy. Much brighter. | 6 months | Improved. |
| Had some abdominal pain which seems to have been due to constipation, now gone. | Improved | - | Much better appetite and sleep. | English good, arithmetic good, unable to say if improved or not (new teacher). | 5 months | Improved. |
| - | No asthma attacks since starting treatment. Bronchitis, sometimes a cough but no spasms. | - | Much better | Brighter and more alert last few weeks. | 6 months | Much improved. |
| — | - | - | Seems quite well | Child inattentive but clever before and since treatment. | 2 months | Unchanged. |