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Heston and Isleworth 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]

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6/1/23—Returned home.
Attending for daily treatment at Clinic, also attending
hospital.
9/1/23—Letter to Mr. " B " : —
" This child turned up at the Clinic yesterday
with a verbal message asking tho Nurse to treat her
ear."
" I shall be glad if you will let me have detailed
instructions as to what you would like done and I
will see that my Nurse carries them out."
8/2/23—Doing well—just a little discharge deep inside—
heariug improved.
12/3/23—Attending hospital—she reports that the Doctor she
saw said she should not be at school—nothing written
sent. Still slight discharge.
13/3/23—Letter to Mr. "B"
" This child whom you operated on turned up
at the Clinic and said she had been told not to attend
school. I shall be glad to know if this is so, because
the home is a particularly bad one, and in view of
the fact, that the child is under our daily care at the
Clinic, it appeared to me much wiser that the child
should be in school and under observation. However,
if you think she ought to be out of school, and will
let me know, she shall be excluded."
19/3/23—Discharge ceased.
Child left school at the end of that term.
The duties shown above are only extracts from pages of
continuous note extending on the whole period.
This girl latterly had been morose and sullen, out of touch
with things by reason of her defective hearing and generally
below par.
Some months after, she brought a younger sister to the
Clinic. 1 did not recognise her at first, she looked plump, well