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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
Heston and Isleworth 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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class of work. Despite the pronouncement of some of the bestknown
pædiatricians that these preputial adhesions disappear or
are negligible, one finds a considerable number of reflex symptoms,
particularly in older infants, which are cleared up at once by the
separation of the adherent foreskin. With the complete separation
of the foreskin none of these cases require circumcision.
Another fact which emerges in the case of these restless infants, according to the mothers' statements, is, firstly, that without exception the infant has never had its genitals examined at the Clinic it attended; and secondly, that without exception the Medical Officer has been an unmarried woman.
| Sales at Clinics. | Quantity. | Receipts. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | ||
| Half-Cream Cow & Gate | 1132 lbs. | 87 | 9 | 10 |
| Cow and Gate | 9320 lbs. | 714 | 18 | 3 |
| Glaxo | 165 lbs. | 12 | 3 | 10 |
| Prescription Glaxo | 454 lbs. | 35 | 15 | 8 |
| Virol | 859½lbs. | 54 | 2 | 11 |
| Malt | 7 lbs. | 5 | 3 | |
| Oil and Malt | 328 lbs. | 11 | 8 | 9 |
| Lactagol | 1117 tins. | 63 | 8 | 2 |
| Cod Liver Oil Emulsion | 3580 bottles | 116 | 17 | 4 |
| Bemax | 440 packets | 9 | 3 | 4 |
| Lacidac | 1 packet | 2 | 7 | |
| Total | £l,105 | 15 | 11 | |
An agreement exists with the London County Council for the
admission of cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum to St. Margarets
Hospital.
The appended list shows the last hundred analyses of breast
milk:—