London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Bromley 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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Medical Certificates of Exclusion from School.
The following is a summary of the medical certificates
issued by general practitioners and gives an indication
of the types of illness responsible for loss of school
attendance. These figures are in addition to those of
children excluded from school through the School Medical
Service.
Conditions
| Malnutrition | 18 |
| Skin | 19 |
| Eyes | 6 |
| Ears | 13 |
| Nose and Throat | 67 |
| Enlarged cervical glands | 6 |
| Heart | 6 |
| Lung (non-tuberculous) | 29 |
| Nervous diseases | 5 |
| Accidents | 7 |
| Operations | 3 |
| Measles | 41 |
| Whooping cough | 5 |
| Mumps | 8 |
| Influenza | 16 |
| Chicken pox | 53 |
| Rheumatism | 18 |
| Bronchitis | 33 |
| Miscellaneous | 54 |
| 407 |