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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

Ilford 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]

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Table: AURAL CLINIC

AURAL CLINIC

Nature of DiseaseStill under treatmentRecommended Hospital treatmentDischarged as curedDischarged as improvedDischarged as no treatment requiredDischarged as left districtDischarged as left schoolDischarged Children whose parents refused to continue attendance or treated elsewhereTotals
NewOldNewOldNewOldNewOldNewOldNewOldNewOldNewOldNewOld
(i)Acute Suppurative Otitis Media------------------
(ii)Acute Catarrhal Otitis Media-----1-----------1
(iii)Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media due to:—
1. Tympanic Sepsis23-113--11------48
2. ,, Sepsis and Granulations------------------
3. Other Causes------------------
(iv)Mastoid Disease (previous operation)-----------------5
(v)Partial Deafness due to:—
1. Nerve Deafness----------1-----21
2. Tonsils and Adenoids232231---1------77
3. Retraction of Membrana Tympani121------------22
4. Scarring of Membrana Tympani------------------
5. Other causes-11--4-----1--2-36
(vi)Opinion on Tonsils253012215060171-1910543-1416224477
(vii)Rhinitis142-13--1-----3-87
(viii)Other diseases or defects111551314301-88----314267
Totals425813316679217112011555-21217292581