[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham] page 160

West Ham 1955

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

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TABIE II

A. Return of defects found by medical inspection in the year ended 31st December, 1955,

Defect Code Number	Disease or Defect	Periodic Inspection No. of defects		Special Inspections No. of defects
Defect Code Number	Disease or Defect	Requiring treatment	Requiring to be kept under observation	Requiring treatment	Requiring to be kept under observation
4	Skin	30	8	953	35
5	Eyes -
	(a) Vision	315	96	307	131
	(b) Squint	48	24	63	31
	(e) Other	5	5	210	7
6	Ears -
	(a) Hearing	10	18	109	88
	(b) Otitis media	3	10	42	18
	(c) Other	4	3	86	7
7	Nose and throat	63	110	175	168 '
8	Speech	25	59	84	121
9	Cervical glands	2	10	8	56
10	Heart and circulation	8	23	35	4l
11	Lungs	10	23	66	61
12	Developmental -
	(a) Hernia	3	10	2	7
	(b) Other	3	23	5	57
13	Orthopaed ic -
	(a) Posture	16	13	21	33
	(b) Plat foot	4i	20	4l	69
	(c) Other	31	48	68	56
	Nervous system -
	(a) Epilepsy	1	4	12	18
	(b) Other	10	15	23	38
15	Psychological -
	(a) Development	2	12	103	108
	(b) Stability	16	90	131	108
16	Other	70	181	1,781	434

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B. Classification of the General Condition of children Inspected during the year in the Periodic Age Groups.

Age Groups Inspected	Number of pupils Inspected	A (Good)		B (Pair)		C (Poor)
Age Groups Inspected	Number of pupils Inspected	No.	% of col.2	No.	% of col.2	No.	% of col,2
(1)	(2)	(3)	(1)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)
Entrants	2,668	992	37.18	1,641	61.51	35	1.31
Second Age Group	2,329	868	37.27	1,441	61.87	20	0.86
Third Age Group Additional Perioc Inspections	1,871 ic 1,204	870 585	46 .50 48.59	978 598	52.27 49.67 .	23 21	1.23 1,74
Total	8,072	3,315	41,07	4,658	57.70	99	1.23

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