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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
Woolwich 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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The following Table No. 12, shows the number of cases and conditions treated during the year :—
TABLE No. 12.
Cases treated at Sunlight Clinic, 1936.
| Brought forward from 1935. | New Cases. | Total. | Much Improved or Cured. | Improved. | I.S.Q. | Ceased Treatment. | Treatment not yet complete | |
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The Care and Comfort of the Pre-School Child.—In May the Ministry
of Health issued a circular dealing with the arrangements to be made for the Care and
Comfort of Children under School Age. The Ministry drew attention to the fact
that excluding children suffering from uncleanliness and dental defects, 16 per cent.
of children entering school are found to require treatment for some disease or defect
which could, in many cases, have been prevented from developing, or could have
been quickly cured if adequate supervision of the health of the children had been
exercised throughout the pre-school period. Exclusive of nursery school provision
which is in London the province of the London County Council, the Ministry suggested
by way of remedy :—
(а) Systematic periodical health visiting to be increased ;
(б) The holding of Toddlers Clinics ;