[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham] page 399

West Ham 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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various sources. For example, a list of infectious cases notified
under the Public Health Act is supplied daily to the school medical
section, and daily returns of children who are absent from school
on medical grounds are made to the medical officer of health by
the school attendance officers. The assistant school medical
officers may also diagnose infectious or contagious diseases at the
school clinics, and in this way patients who would otherwise have
been missed are dealt with.
Notifiable infectious diseases which are notified to the
medical officer of health are dealt with in the manner indicated in
previous sections of this report. Generally, in the case of
infectious diseases the homes of the patients are visited by the
sanitary inspectors or health visitors. In the case of measles
especially, advice is given to the parents regarding the care of the
patients.

Table: The following table gives particulars of 399 excluded children who were found at clinics and elsewhere to be suffering from infectious or contagious diseases: these conditions were, of course, exclusive of the many cases of notifiable diseases which were notified in the normal way.

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The following table gives particulars of 399 excluded children who were found at clinics and elsewhere to be suffering from infectious or contagious diseases: these conditions were, of course, exclusive of the many cases of notifiable diseases which were notified in the normal way.

Impetigo	67	Anaemia and Debility	1
Scabies	182	Bronchitis	7
Other skin diseases	33	Verminous	10
Conjunctivitis	6	Ringworm of head: treated by X-ray	13
Mumps	4	Ringworm of head: treated by X-ray	13
Enlarged glands	2	treated at clinic	10
Chicken pox	11	Ringworm of body	20
Tonsillitis	5	Other defects and diseases	39
Diphtheria	4	Other defects and diseases	39

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Exclusion notices were sent by the school medical officer to
the appropriate schools and the superintendent of visitors in connection
with the above cases.
During the year the following cases were brought to the
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Table: The following table gives particulars of 399 excluded children who were found at clinics and elsewhere to be suffering from infectious or contagious diseases: these conditions were, of course, exclusive of the many cases of notifiable diseases which were notified in the normal way.

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