London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Sutton 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton]
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TABLE 5
The Handicapped Pre-School Child
This table shows the number of children with each type of defect born in each of the last five years, but as some children have more than one defect the sum total of defects is not the same as the total number of cases on the Register. The figures given in this table include the cases shown in Table 2.
| Handicap or Defect | YEAR OF BIRTH | TOTAL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | ||
| DEFECTS OF EAR OR FACE including: absence of pinna or meatus, accessory auricle, bat ear, naevae, skin tags, micrognathia | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
| DEFECTS OF MOUTH including: hare lip, cleft palate | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | |
| DEFECTS OF ALIMENTARY SYSTEM including: pyloric stenosis, oesophagael atresia, jejunal atresia, imperforate anus, defects of liver, hernia, Hirschsprung's disease | 1 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 39 |
| Osteogenesis Imperfecta | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| SKELETAL DEFORMITIES including: achondroplasia, chondrodystrophy, dwarfism, arachnodactyly, reduction deformities, Pierre Robin Syndrome | 3 | 2 | 9 | |||
| SYNDACTYLY, POLYDACTYLY | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| TALIPES, AND OTHER FOOT DEFORMITIES | 3 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 43 |
| CONGENITAL DISLOCATION OF HIP | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 22 |
| DEFECTS OF UROGENITAL SYSTEM including: Hypospadias, epispadias, undescended testicles, hydrocele, defects of female genitalia, defects of kidney, ureters, etc. pseudo-hermaphrodism | 1 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 26 |
| MUSCULAR DEFECTS including: spastic, absence of muscles, arthogryphosis, torticollis, hemiplegia | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| OTHER MINOR PHYSICAL DEFORMITIES including: pilonidal sinus | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
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