London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
East Ham 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
This page requires JavaScript
143
a case fails to attend the School Clinic it automatically becomes
included in the following up list of one of the School Nurses.
The recent extension of facilities for orthopaedic treatment
at the East Ham Memorial Hospital has enabled the School
Medical Department to refer several cases to this Hospital, under
the general terms of agreement between the East Ham Corporation
and the Hospital Authorities.
(j) The Light Clinic.
A further twelve months' experience of actino-therapy does
not warrant any change of opinion as to the superior value of this
form of treatment, in the type of cases selected, over all other
measures which have been given a trial, and I can only confirm
my reports of previous years in this respect.
The opening of the Church Road Clinic has provided for the inclusion of a large number of children hitherto precluded from treatment by ultra-violet rays.
| Condition | Boys | Girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anaemia and Debility | 97 | 111 | 116 |
| Malnutrition | 33 | 44 | 3 |
| Cervical Adenitis | 14 | 9 | 2 |
| Bronchial Catarrh | 53 | 35 | 16 |
| Rheumatism | 6 | 7 | 2 |
| Sinus | 1 | — | — |
| Dermatitis | — | 1 | — |
| Rachitis | — | 1 | 1 |
| Asthma | a | 2 | — |
| Debility and Rheumatism | — | 3 | — |
| Nervous Debility | 7 | 10 | — |
| Debility and Bronchial Catarrh | — | 1 | — |
| Chorea | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Alopecia | 6 | 5 | — |
| Rickets | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Eczema | 1 | — | — |
| Debility and Cervical Adenitis | 1 | 1 | — |
| Debility and Eneuresis | 1 | — | — |
| Bronchial Catarrh and Rheumatism | 1 | — | — |
| Bronchial Catarrh and Anaemia | 1 | — | — |