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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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SECTION A. MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.
The number of routine medical inspections at schools during
1943 falls short of the usual quota. This reduction is due to
several reasons, viz. : Frequent staff changes, staff illness, staff
concentration on diphtheria immunisation, and a considerable
increase in special medical inspections at the school clinics, as
shown in the following table. The fall in the routine medical
inspections occurs principally in the second age group, but we
have been able to make good the arrears by stepping up the
number of routine medical sessions in the first half of 1944.
The figures of inspections for 1943 are as follows :—
| (1) Entrants | 548 | |
| (2) Second Age Group | 144 | |
| (3) Third Age Group | 388 | |
| (4) Other routine inspections | 161 | |
| 1,241 | ||
| (5) Special medical inspections and re-inspections at the school clinics (not including Specialists' clinics) | 6,003 | |
| 7,244 | ||
Findings at Medical Inspections. The following table summarises briefly the defects discovered at routine and special medical inspections during 1943 :-
| Defect or Disease. | Routine Inspections requiring | Special Inspections requiring | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment. | Observation. | Treatment. | Observation. | |||
| Skin | 3 | 1 | 731 | 16 | ||
| Eyes | 17 | 22 | 306 | 22 | ||
| Ears | 1 | 1 | 156 | 3 | ||
| Nose and Throat | 3 | 44 | 354 | 45 | ||
| Defective Speech | — | — | — | — | ||
| Heart and Circulation | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3 | ||
| Lungs (non T.B ) | 4 | — | 93 | 3 | ||
| Tuberc. Pulm. | — | 1 | — | — | ||
| " Non-Pulm. | — | — | 3 | 3 | ||
| Nervous System | — | — | 42 | 5 | ||
| Deformities | 5 | — | 22 | 1 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 173 | 20 | 820 | 121 | ||
| 209 | 91 | 2535 | 222 | |||