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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
West Ham 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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The following Table gives a list of such cases notified by School Attendance Officers, and subsequently visited by Sanitary Inspectors during the year in question:—
| Measles | 3098 |
| Chicken Pox | 991 |
| Whooping Cough | 117 |
| Mumps | 325 |
| Tonsillitis | 363 |
| Other Diseases | 273 |
(16) Co-operation of Voluntary Bodies.
The following Societies or Associations in particular render
useful service to the School Medical Department:—
(1) The Invalid Children's Aid Association.
(2) Invalid and Crippled Children's Society.
(3) Central Association for Mental Welfare.
(4) National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children.
The first two Societies notify to the School'Medical Officer
ailing children who come to their notice as requiring convalescence,
or crippled children requiring surgical appliances
(or alteration to same).
During the year 59 cases were referred by the above Societies
and examined as to necessary surgical instruments or
alteration.
During the same period 242 children of school age and 54
under school age were examined and sent away for varying
periods of convalescence.
Occasionally the Inspectors of the N.S.P.C.C. have been
called in to help in cases of persistent neglect, and their visits
have a moral and material effect on neglectful parents.
The Central Association for Mental Welfare interests itself
in mentally defective educable children both at and after school
age.