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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Group II.—Defective Vision and Squint (excluding Minor Eye Defects Treated as
Minor Ailments—Group I).
TABLE A.
| Number of Defects Dealt with | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Under the Authority's Scheme. | Otherwise. | Total. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Errors of Refraction (including squint) (operations for squint should be recorded separately in the body of the School Medical Officer's Report). | 721 | 66 | 787 |
| Other defect or disease of the eyes (excluding those recorded in Group I) | 1 | — | 1 |
| Total | 722 | 66 | 788 |
| Under the Authority's Scheme. | Otherwise. | Total. | |
| No. of children for whom spectacles were— | |||
| 589 | 64 | 653 | |
| 390 | 179 | 569 | |
In the above table the figures of 721 and 66 represent the cases submitted to refraction or
in which spectacles were prescribed without refraction during the year, no matter whether they were
new cases or cases arising out of re-examination. One individual child may be submitted to refraction
more than once during the year and would appear in the above table on each occasion.
TABLE B.
The following table shows the cases dealt with during the year whether they were submitted to refraction or not and includes new cases, cases seen for purposes of re-examination, and also cases (whether seen by the oculist or not) receiving attention on account of lost or broken spectacles.
| Defect or Disease. | Number of Defects Dealt with | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Under the Authority's Scheme. | Otherwise. | Total. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Errors of Refraction (including squint) | 2,162 | 93 | 2,255 |
| Other defect or disease of the eyes (excluding those recorded in Group I) | 1 | — | 1 |
| Total | 2,163 | 93 | 2,256 |
Group III.—Treatment of Defects of Nose and Throat.
| Number of Defects. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Received Operative Treatment. | Received other forms of Treatment. | Total number treated. | |||||||||||
| Under the Authority's Scheme in Clinic or Hospital. | By private practitioner or Hospital, apart from the Authority's Scheme. | Total. | |||||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |||||||||
| (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | 632 | 1,176 |
| 9 | 17 | 434 | 7 | 77 | 544 | ||||||||
(i) Tonsils only, (ii) Adenoids only, (iii) Tonsils and adenoids, (iv) Other defects of the nose and throat.