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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 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]

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Total number of attendances141107248
Number of individual children7859137
Sun-Ray Clinic:
Total number of attendances7592731032
Number of individual children532679
Rheumatism Clinic:
Total number of attendances......376
Number of individual children......107
Minor Ailment Clinic:
Total number of-attendances......10,765
Number of individual children......2,429
Total number of exclusions......646
Total number of re-admissions......432
Number of Special Cases......1,020
Number of Special Cases re-inspected......502

Table: Ophthalmic Clinic:

Ophthalmic Clinic:

SchoolWelfareTotal
Number of attendances64794741
New cases15037187
Retinoscopy13025155
Glasses prescribed771289
Glasses issued10513118
Other cases301343
Individual children29840338
Immunisation Clinic:
Number of attendances212851967324

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Personal Hygien:
Number of visits to schools 208
Average number of visits to schools 9.5
Number of examinations 24,431
Number of individual children defective 434
Number of re-examinations 987
Visits:
Total number of visits by School Nurses 540
SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE
YEAR 1945
In presenting this Annual Report on the School Dental
Service, I wish to take this opportunity of expressing my respect
and admiration for the work of Miss M. M. Loretz, Senior Dental
Officer to this Borough from 1920 to 1944. Miss Loretz's resignation,
due to ill-health, was felt as a personal loss both by the
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