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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 IX—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. | ||||
| B | G | B | G | B | G | |
| ERRORS OF REFRACTION (including squint) | 12 | 18 | - | - | 12 | 18 |
| (Operations for squint should be recorded separately in the body of the School Medical Officer's Report.) Other defect or disease of the eyes (excluding those recorded in Group I) | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 12 | 18 | - | - | 12 | 18 |
| Under the Authority's Scheme. | Otherwise | Total. | ||||
| No. of Children for whom spectacles were | ||||||
| (a) Prescribed | 8 | 13 | - | - | 8 | 13 |
| (b) Obtained | 8 | 13 | - | - | 8 | 13 |
GROUP III.— TREATMENT OF DEFECTS OF NOSE AND THROAT.
| Received Operative Treatment. | Received other forms of Treatment. | Total number treated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under the Atho-rity's Scheme, in Clinic or Hospital | By Private Practitioner or Hospital, apart from the Authority's Scheme. | Total. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | ||||||||||||||||
| B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G |
| - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | |
(i) Tonsils only, (ii) Adenoids only, (iii) Tonsils and adenoids, (iv) Other
defects of the nose and throat.