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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 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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TABLE II.
Return of Defects found in course of Medical Inspection, 1917.
| Defect or Disease. | Code Groups. | Specials, | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number referred for treatment. | Number referred for observation. | |||||
| Malnutrition | 3 | Included | Included under the return of cases seen at Inspection Clinic and not kept seperately. | |||
| Uncleanliness— | in other | |||||
| Head | 133 | conditions | ||||
| Body | 3 | |||||
| Skin | Ringworm— | |||||
| Head | ||||||
| Body | 2 | |||||
| Scabies | 11 | |||||
| Impetigo | 1 | |||||
| Eve | Def. vision and squint | 14 | 8 | |||
| Ext. eye disease | 2 | |||||
| Ear | Def. hearing | 2 | 2 | |||
| Ear disease | 8 | |||||
| Nose and throat | Enlarged tonsils | 7 | 4 | |||
| Adenoids | 11 | 4 | ||||
| Enl. tons, and adenoids ... | 11 | 5 | ||||
| Def. speech | 1 | |||||
| Heart's Circulation | Organic | 3 | ||||
| Functional | ||||||
| Anaemia | 12 | 2 | ||||
| Lungs | Tuberculosis— | |||||
| Definite | ||||||
| Suspend | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Chronic bronch.&bronch.cat. | 4 | 3 | ||||
| Other disease | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Non-pulmonary tuberculosis | ||||||
| Glands | 4 | |||||
| Bones | 1 | |||||
| Rickets | 1 | |||||
| Deformities | 1 | |||||
| Other dis. or defects | 5 | 4 | ||||
Nutrition.—The general nutrition of the children was, on the
whole, satisfactory, and the increase in the price of food did not
appear to have adversely affected the nutrition of the children to any
appreciable extent. As in previous years, a comparatively small
number of children were found to be underfed and neglected, but the
condition of these was nearly always attributable to the unsatisfactory