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Brentford and Chiswick 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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The income d rived from these contributing fees, compared with the three previous years, is shown thus:—
| 1936 | 1935 | 1934 | 1933 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £. | s. | d. | £. | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Tonsils and Adenoids operations | - | 2 | 14 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Spectacles | 35 | 14 | 0 | 33 | 7 | 8 | 32 | 14 | 2 | 35 | 18 | 0 |
| Dental Treatment | 100 | 7 | 0 | 112 | 10 | 6 | 132 | 19 | 6 | 114 | 2 | 6 |
| Orthopaedic Treatment | 17 | 19 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 7 | 9 |
| £154 | 0 | 9 | £160 | 6 | 2 | £193 | 9 | 2 | £185 | 13 | 3 | |
(a) Minor Ailments.—These Clinics are held in the Town
Hall Buildings, Chiswick and at Portsdown House, The Butts,
Brentford. Sessions are held each morning (except Sunday)
and on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays Special Inspections
are held to which parents are invited.
The work done in the Clinics during the year is indicated in the following Table:—
| Inspections of special cases | 1,298 |
| Re-inspections of special cases | 886 |
| Number of individual children attending | 5,226 |
| Number of attendances made | 13,129 |
| Number of exclusion certificates issued | 851 |
| Number of return certificates issued | 606 |
(b) Tonsils and Adenoids.—As Chiswick Hospital was
closed for rebuilding purposes during the year, we were unable
to carry out our usual satisfactory scheme for the treatment of
diseases of these tissues. Children requiring operative treatment
were therefore sent to the West Middlesex County
Hospital. The operations performed there were, without
exception, most satisfactory, but the long waiting period
obviously indicates that the resources of that hospital for this
form of treatment have been taxed to the limit.
Seventy-seven children were operated upon at the West
Middlesex Hospital and one child was treated by private
arrangements.
109 children received treatment for septic condition of the
teeth and were prescribed breathing exercises. These are
being kept under observation to see if the morbid condition of
their tonsils and adenoids will disappear.