Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Table IV.—
Group II.—Defective Vision and Squint (excluding Minor Eye Defects treated as Minor Ailments—Group I.).
Defect or Disease. | No. of Defects dealt with. | No. of children for whom spectacles were | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under the Authority's Scheme. | Otherwise. | Total. | Prescribed (1) | Obtained (2) | ||||||||||
(i) | (ii) | (i) | (ii) | |||||||||||
Under the Authority's Scheme. | Otherwise | Under the Authority's Scheme. | Otherwise. | |||||||||||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |||||||||||
B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | |
Errors of Refraction (including Squint) | 8 | 21 | — | — | 3 | 21 | 1 | 13 | — | — | 1 | 13 | — | — |
Other Defect or Disease of the Eyes (excluding those recorded in Group I.). | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
Total | 3 | 21 | — | — | 3 | 21 |
Group III.—Treatment of Defects of Nose and Throat.
NUMBER OF DEFECTS.
Received Operative Treatment.
Under the Authority's Scheme, in Clinic or Hospital. | By Private Practitioner or Hospital, apart from the Authority's Scheme. | Total. | |||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(1) | (2) | (3) | |||||||||||||||||||||
B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. | B. | G. |
(i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | ||||||||||||
1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 |
(i) Tonsils only. (ii) Adenoids only. (iii) Tonsils and Adenoids,
(iv) Other defects of the nose and throat.
Received other forms of treatment Roys — Girls 2
Total number treated Boys 2 Girls 3