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
West Ham 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Enteritis 23
Fits 1
Foreign body in nose 1
Genu Varum 1
Glands of neck 5
,, ,, groin 1
Haematuria 1
Haemorrhage 1
Heart Trouble 1
Hernia 24
Imperforate Anus 1
Mastoid 7
Measles 1
Meatotomy 1
Meningitis 5
Mumps 1
Naevus 6
Nephritis 5
Observation (for) 4
Otorrhoea 3
Periostitis of leg 1
Pneumonia 29
Poisoning 2
Prematurity 1
Ptosis 1
Pyelitis 1
Pyloric Stenosis 2
Pyrexia 1
Scalds 7
Septic rases 3
Sequestra Rt. arm 1
Shock 2
Swallowed gramophone
needle 1
Talipes 1
Tonsils and Adenoids 6
Tuberculosis 2
Children's Hospital, Balaam Street, E.13 (Orthopoedic).
Rickets 9
Plating of Femur 1
Osteoclasis 1
| Disease | No. of Cases. | Disease | No. of Cases. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malnutrition | 42 | Jaundice | 1 | ||
| Rickets | 19 | Abscess of face, of neck, of axilla | 3 | ||
| Bronchitis | 15 | ||||
| Enteritis | 12 | Meningitis | 1 | ||
| Marasmus | 10 | Pyloric Stenosis | 2 | ||
| Pneumoaia | V | Pyelitis | 1 | ||
| Anaemia | 7 | Nephritis | 1 | ||
| For observation | 6 | Colitis | 1 | ||
| Indigestion | 5 | Nervous debility | 2 | ||
| Infantile eczema | 4 | Congenital Laryngeal obstruction | 1 | ||
| Diarrhoea | 3 | ||||
| Prematurity | 4 | ||||
| Congenital heart disease | 3 | Total | 155 | ||
| Unresolved pneumonia | 3 | ||||
| Conjunctivitis | 2 | ||||