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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 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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TABLE B.- CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA.
| DIAGN0SIS. | Totals (Ears) | DIAGNOSIS | TONSILS AND ADENOIDS. | TREATMENT | RESULT. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Children over 5.) Chronic Tympanic Sepsis. Complicated by:- | Granulations: Simple Polyp. | Mas toid Disease. | Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids. | Nasal Catarrh: Rhinitis:Sinusitie | External Otitis: Exzema. | Primary (Ear) | Collateral (Nose & Throat.) | Cured. | Improved. | Still Under Treatment or Observation | Left or Lapsed Treatment. | Referred to Hospital for Ope ration. | Declined Treatment | |||||
| Old Operation | No Operation. | Zinc Ionisation. | Antiseptic Treatment or Cautery. | Tonsils & Adenoids. Conservative: Nasal: Diastolis-ation. | Tonsils & Adenoids Op; | |||||||||||||
| Granulations: Simple Polypi. | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | Operation Before Clinic. | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| 1 | - | — | 1 | _ | _ | No Operation. | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | i | - | — | |||
| Mastoid Disease. | 6 X(2) | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | Operati on Before §linic. | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | ||
| — | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | No Operation. | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | - | - | |||
| Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids. | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | Operation Before Clinic. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| | | - | 3 | - | No Operation. | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | ||||||
| Nasal Catarrh:Rhinitis or Sinusitis. | 3 X(1) | _ | _ | _ | _ | Operation Before Clinic. | _ | _ | _ | _ | — | _ | - 1 | _ | _ | |||
| - | - | - | 3 | - | No Operation. | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | |||||
| External Otitis. Eczema. | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | Operation Before Clinic. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | No Operation. | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | ||||
| 18 | 4 | 3 | 314 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 2 | - | 91 | - | |||||
| Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media solely. (Tympanic Sepsis only) | 13 X(3) | Children over' 5 years. | 8 | Operation Beforp 01ini n. | 6 | 2 | - | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | ||||||
| 5 | No Operation. | 4 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | ||||||||
| Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media with Nasal Conditions; Tonsils & Adenoids. | 2 | Children unde: 5 years. | - | Op-eration Before Clinic. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| 2 | No operation. | - | 2 | - | - | — | — | - | 2 | — | — | |||||||
| 21 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 13 | - | - | |||||||||
I - The figures in breokets indicate the number of cases with ;Bi-lateral Otorrhoea.