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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
Harrow 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow-on-the-Hill]
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Analysis.
| Ages | 1 | year | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Total 34 cases. | |
| No. of cases | 14 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 21 | |||
| Ages 6 years | 7 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 15 | Vdult | Total 28 cases. | |
| No. of cases 2 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 3- | 1 | 1 | ||
Total No. of New Cases, 47, viz., 23 under 5 years of age,
24 over 5 years of age.
Total No. of Cases Attending, 62, viz., 34 under 5 years
of age, 28 over 5 years of age.
Total No. of Attendances, 1133, viz., 533 under 5 years of
age, 600 over 5 years of age'
Total No. of Sessions held, 121, average attendance per
session, 9.
Treatments.
12 Spinal Curvature, 9 Breathing exercises (leferred from
Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic), 4 Fractures, 6 Talipes, 2
Muscular Debility, 1 Muscular Athrophy Right Arm, 1 Defective
Muscular Development, 6 Flatfoot, 2 Knockknee, 2, Bowleg,
6 Rickets, 5 Pigeon Chest, 1 Drop Foot, 4 Poliomelitis
(i.e. Infantile Paralysis), 1 Rheumatism (advisory).
Cases have been sent by the School and Clinic Doctors,
London Hospitals and Local Medical Practitioners, and during
the year Dr. Mayne, the Hon. Surgeon to this Clinic, has
paid visits and inspected 43 cases.