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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 1938
[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. | ||||
| B | G | B | G | B | G | |
| ERRORS OF REFRACTION (including squint) | 21 | 13 | — | — | 21 | 13 |
| Other defect or disease of the eyes (excluding those recorded in Group I) | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 21 | 13 | — | — | 21 | 13 |
| No. of Children for whom spectacles were | ||||||
| (a) Prescribed | 10 | 7 | — | — | 10 | 7 |
| (b) Obtained | 10 | 6 | — | — | 10 | 6 |
GROUP III.—TREATMENT OF DEFECTS OF NOSE AND THROAT.
| Number of Defects. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Received Operative Treatment. | Received other forms 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (i) | (ii) | (in) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | |||||||||||||||
| B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | B G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | |
| 1 | — | — | — | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | — | — | 9 | 6 | ||
(i) Tonsils only, (ii) Adenoids only, (iii) Tonsils and adenoids, (iv) Other
defects of the nose and throat.