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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 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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This confirms the opinion so often expressed that the greater
the proportion of the family income available for expenditure
on food, the better the chance of good health in the family;
any factor that limits this expenditure below the minimum
requirements per head of family will itself counteract any
benefit resulting from a complete School Medical Service.
Finally, the child is a member of a family, and it is around
this family unit that the health and social services must revolve.
Give this family the means and the inner urge for health of
mind and body and the need for clinics will be a minor problem.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS. Number of children on the School Rolls 5,038 (Avg.) Number of individual children who attended the Medical Clinics:—
| (a) North Clinic | 1,382 | |
| (b) South Clinic | 1,189 | |
| 2,571 | ||
| Number of individual children routine medically examined at Schools | 1,080 | |
| Number of other routine medical examinations | 161 | |
| Number of special medical examinations at the Clinics:— | ||
| (a) North Clinic | 3,063* | |
| (b) South Clinic | 2,940 | |
| (c) Specialist Clinics | 1,109 | |
| 7,112 | ||
| Number of attendances made by children for treatment by School Nurses:— | ||
| (a) North Clinic | 7,364* | |
| (b) South Clinic | 6,993 | |
| 14,357 | ||
| * Including Hayes and Burnt Ash Clinics. Number of attendances for treatment at Dental Clinics:— | ||
| (a) Elementary school children | 4,770 | |
| (b) Higher Education children | 693 | |
| Number of attendances under other Dental Schemes | 501 | |
| Number of treatments at the Eye Clinic | 695 | |
| Number of spectacles prescribed | 200 | |
| Number of attendances at the Orthopædic Clinic:— | ||
| (a) For consultations | 405 | |