Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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The following table gives the affections on account of which children received convalescent treatment:—
Nervous Debility | 10 | Peritoneum | 1 |
Pre-tubercular Debility | 27 | Hip | 1 |
Debility aft. Infectious Disease | 36 | Chorea | 37 |
Post-operative Debility | 23 | Enlargement of Glands | 10 |
Post-Pneumonic Debility | 7 | Rheumatism | 7 |
Anaemia and Debility | 46 | Tonsilitis | 3 |
General Debility | 47 | Dyspepsia | 5 |
Heart Affections and Anaemia | 19 | Paralysis | 4 |
Bronchitis and Bronchial Catarrh | 35 | Empyema | 2 |
Rheumatic Fever | 3 | ||
Asthma | 7 | Marasmus | 4 |
Other Non-tubercular Lung Disease | 6 | Nephritis | 1 |
Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | ||
Gastric Catarrh | 2 | Malnutrition | 7 |
Gastric | 5 | Appendicitis | 3 |
Tuberculosis:— | Other Cases | 14 | |
Glands | 2 |
Provision of Surgical Instruments.—Surgical appliances were
supplied, and repairs and replacements effected in 218 instances. This
was in respect of 80 children who were found to be suffering from the
following defects:—
Infantile and other forms of
Paralysis 36
Tuberculosis:—
Hip 3
Knee 3
Ankle 1
Spine 1
Flat-foot 9
Club-feet 2
Pes Cavus 1
Other forms of Deformed
Feet 5
Amputated Leg 1
Rickety Deformities 4
Weak Ankles 4
Other cases 10
BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.
Residential Schools.
There are 42 children from this district being maintained in Special
Residential Schools. 5 of these are crippled and physically defective
children, 12 blind, 17 mentally defective, 5 epileptic and 3 deaf and dumb.