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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
Brentford and Chiswick 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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The following figures and tables of work in this service are in addition to the Statutory Tables issued to the Board of Education
| ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC.- | |
| Total number of attendaces | 241 |
| Number of individual children (school) | 36 |
| Number of individual children (welfare) | 52 |
| Surgeon.- | |
| Total number of attendances | 39 |
| SUN-RAY CLINIC.- | |
| Total number of attendances | 285 |
| Number of individual children | 64 |
| MINOR AILMENT CLINIC.- | |
| Total number of attendances | |
| Number of individual children | |
| Total number of exclusions | 681 |
| Total number of re-admissions | 418 |
| Number of Special cases | 749 |
| Number of Special cases re-inspected | 243 |
| OPHTHALMIC CLINIC.- | |
| Number of attendaces | 407 |
| New cases | 83 |
| Retinoscopy | 134 |
| Glasses prescribed | |
| Glasses issued | 73 |
| Other cases | 261 |
| Individual children | 134 |
| IMMUNISATION CLINIC.- | |
| Number of attendaces (School) | 2986 |
| Number of attendaces (Welfare) | 2282 |
| PERSONAL HYGIENE. - | |
| Number of visits to schools | 306 |
| Average number of visits to schools | 15.3 |
| Number of examinations | 16472 |
| Number of individual children defective | 318 |
| Number of re-examinations | 1078 |
| VISITS.- | |
| Total number by School Nurses | 645 |
* This number includes all children attending the Clinic. The
number of those actually treated was 352. The remainder were
those referred to other clinics, to their own doctor, to hospital
those given advice or kept under observation.