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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
Wimbledon 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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C.—CHILDREN FOUND TO REQUIRE TREATMENT.
Number of individual children pound at Routine medical
Inspection to Reqdire Treatment (excluding Defects of
Nutrition, Uncleanliness and Dental Diseases).
note.—No individual child is counted more than once in any column of this
Table; for example, a child suffering from defective vision and from adenoids
appears once in Column 2, once in Column 3 and once only in Column 4. Similarly
a child suffering from two defects other than defective vision appears once only
in Column 3 and once in Column 4.
Similarly a child suffering from two defects other than defective vision appears once only in Column 3 and once in Column 4.
| Group. | For defective vision(exclud-ing Squint) | For all other conditions recorded in Table II A. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | W |
| Entrants | 4 | 95 | 90 |
| Second Age Group | 26 | 50 | 67 |
| Third Age Group | 16 | 35 | 49 |
| Total (Prescribed Groups) | 46 | 180 | 206 |
| Other Routine Inspections | 14 | 21 | 30 |
| Grand Total | 60 | 201 | 236 |