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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
Twickenham 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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TABLE VIII.
Treatment of defects of children during 1914.
| Conditions. | Defects requiring treatment. | Defects treated. | Defects untreated. | Per centage treated. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From 1913. | New cases. | Total. | Left district, refused or improved. | Carr. for. to 1915. | Total. | |||
| Cleanliness of head and body | - | 30 | 30 | 28 | - | 2 | 2 | 93.3 |
| Nose and throat | 36 | 110 | 146 | 122 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 83.5 |
| Ear diseases | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | - | - | - | 100.0 |
| Hearing | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 75.0 |
| Exteral eye disease | - | 5 | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | 100.0 |
| Vision and squint | 27 | 129 | 115 | 115 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 73.7 |
| Lungs | - | 5 | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | 100.0 |
| Tubercu losis pul. | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 100.0 |
| Non-pul. | - | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 80.0 |
| Heart | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 0.0 |
| Nervous system | 2 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 3 | - | 3 | 78.5 |
| Skin | 3 | 37 | 40 | 40 | - | - | - | 100.0 |
| Deformities | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 60.6 |
| Other | 4 | 50 | 54 | 41 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 75.9 |
| Total | 75 | 396 | 471 | 384 | 44 | 43 | 87 | 81.5 |
Recommendations in reference to carious teeth are not included
in the above table of cases recommended for treatment, being dealt
with separately in the table of work carried out by the school
dental surgeon, nor does it include the cases of minor ailment
treated by the school nurse at Radnor House in which efficient
treatment was carried out in every case.