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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
East Ham 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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GROUP II.—DEFECTIVE VISION AND SQUINT (excluding Minor Eye Defects treated as Minor Ailments—Group I.).
| No. of Defects dealt with. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Under the Authority's Scheme | Otherwise. | Total. | |
| Errors of Refraction (including squint) (Operations for squint should be recorded separately in the body of the School Med ical Officer's Report.) | 406 | 24 | 430 |
| Other defect or disease of the eyes (excluding those recorded in Group 1) Total | — | — | — |
| 406 | 24 | 430 | |
| Under the Authority's Scheme | Otherwise. | Total. | |
| No. of Children for whom spectacles were | |||
| 394 | 395 | ||
| 392 | 393 | ||
(i) Tonsils only, (ii) Adenoids only., (iii) Tonsils and adenoids, (iv) Other
defects of the nose and throat.
GROUP III.— TREATMENT OF DEFECTS OF NOSE AND THROAT.
| Number of Defects. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Received Operative Treatment. | Received other forms of of Treatment. | Total number treated | |||||||||||
| Under the Authority's Scheme, in Clinic or Hospital | By Private Practitioner or Hospital, apart from the Authority's Scheme. | Total. | |||||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |||||||||
| (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | |||
| — | 7 | 447 | 4 | — | — | 6 | 1 | — | 7 | 453 | 5 | 103 | 568 |