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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
Walthamstow 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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| 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 Medical Officer's Report.) | New 310 Old 114 | 6 | 430 |
| Other defect or disease of the eyes (excluding those recorded in Group I) | 34 | — | 34 |
| Total | 458 | 6 | 464 |
| Under the Authority's Scheme. | Otherwise. | Total. | |
| No. of Children for whom spectacles were— | |||
| 495 | 6 | 501 | |
| (b) Obtained | 482 | 6 | 488 |
| Received Operative Treatment. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under the Authority 'a Scheme, in Clinic or Hospital. | By Private Practitioner or Hospital, apart from the Authority's Scheme. | Total. | Received other Forms of Treatment. | Total Number Treated. | |||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |||||||||
| (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | ||
| - | 103 | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | 3 | 103 | — | 56 | 162 | |
(i) Tonsils only. (ii) Adenoids only. (iii) Tonsils and Adenoids. (iv) Other defects of the nose and throat.
| Under the Authority's (1) | Scheme. | Otherwise. (2) | Total number treated. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential treatment with education. (i) | Residential treatment without education. (ii) | Nonresidential treatment at an orthopaedic clinic. (iii) | Residential treatment with education. (i) | Residential treatment without education. (ii) | Nonresidential treatment at an orthopaedic clinic. (iii) | ||
| Number ol children treated | 5 | - | 271 | - | - | - | 276 |