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

Walthamstow 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

15
Treatment Observation
Enlarged Tonsils 42 180
Adenoids 14 9
Enlarged tonsils and adenoids 28 22
Other conditions 128 131

Table: During the year the medical inspection schedules were scored to show those children who had been subjected to tonsillectomy. The resultant analysis is as follows:—

During the year the medical inspection schedules were scored to show those children who had been subjected to tonsillectomy. The resultant analysis is as follows:—

Number InspectedTonsillectomy
BoysGirlsBoys%Girls%
5 year age group532493387.1214.2
10-12 year group1,1811,09922218.818917.2
14 year age group65762016424.911718.8
Others54755910519.27112.7
Totals2,9172,77152918.139814.4

Text

Copy text to clipboard

(f) Ear Disease and Defective Hearing.—All school medical
officers are provided with electric auriscopes and a full examination
of the ears is carried out at each medical examination.
The incidence of chronic otorrhœa in Walthamstow is considered
to have been particularly low, largely owing to the success
which has resulted from skilled treatment at the specialist ear, nose
and throat clinic with zinc ionisation.
The number of patients requiring treatment and observation
was as follows:—
Treatment Observation
Defective Hearing 79 59
Otitis Media 19 72
Other Ear Disease 31 11
(g) Orthopaedic and Postural Defects.—A total of 231 defects
were found to require treatment.
(h) Dental Defects:—
Inspected Inspection at Schools Requiring Treatment Per cent. Children actually treated Fillings Extractions General Anaesthetics Other Operations
10,529 5,634 53.5 7,892 7,809 7,148 3,844 3,754
(i) Heart Disease and Rheumatism.—The findings were as
follows:—
Treatment Observation
Heart disease—Organic 9 24
Functional — 42
Anaemia 16 7
(j) Tuberculosis.—All children suspected of either pulmonary
or other tuberculosis are referred to the Chest Physician for final
diagnosis.