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 Wimbledon]
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Impetigo is enormous, averaging over six weeks per case, and
is absolutely unnecessary, many of the cases going on month
after month owing to on satisfactory treatment being obtained.
During the year two cases of Phthisis who had returned
from Sanatoria have been working in the Gardening Classes
four days a week, and their progress has been, on the whole,
entirely satisfactory, in addition to which they have been doing
good work at the subject.
The following table gives a list of the ailments from which
the children who attended at the Inspection Clinic during 1913
were found to be suffering:—
Defect. | No. of Cases. | Defect. | No. of Cases. |
---|---|---|---|
Abdominal Cyst | 1 | Cystic Hygroma | 1 |
Abscesses | 13 | Debility | 23 |
Abscesses, Dental | 4 | Defective Hearing | 10 |
Acne | 1 | Defective Speech | 3 |
Adenoids | 7 | Defective Vision | 68 |
Alopecia | 5 | Delicate | 1 |
Amentia | 2 | Dental Caries | 4 |
Anæmia | 12 | Dermatitis | 5 |
Anorexia | 1 | Dermatitis, Septic | 7 |
Aphonia | 1 | Diarrhœa, Vomiting | 3 |
Appendicotomy | 1 | Diphtheria | 5 |
Asthma | 3 | Dyspepsia | 1 |
Asymetrical Pupils | 1 | Earache | 1 |
Bell's Palsy | 2 | Eczema | 17 |
Bilious Attack | 2 | Emesis | 3 |
Blepharitis | 27 | Enlarged Glands in Neck | 24 |
Blepharospasm | 2 | Enlarged Glands, Cervical | 1 |
Bronchial Catarrh | 5 | Enlarged Glands, Parotid | 2 |
Bronchitis | 16 | Enlarged Glands, Post Auricular | 1 |
Cardiac Arrythmia | 3 | ||
Cephalalgia | 4 | Enlarged Glands, Submental | 1 |
Cheiropompholyx | 1 | Enlarged Glands, Tubercular | 2 |
Chilblains | 1 | Enlarged Glands, in Groin | 2 |
Chorea | 14 | Epilepsy | 4 |
? Chorea | 6 | ? Epilepsy | 3 |
Colic | 1 | Epiphora | 2 |
Congenital Dislocation Right Elbow | 1 | Epistaxis | 4 |
Eustachian Obstruction | 5 | ||
Conjunctivitis | 39 | Exocardial Murmur | 1 |
Conjunctivitis, Catarrhal | 51 | Febricula | 3 |
Convulsions | 1 | Fracture, Right Elbow | 1 |
Convulsive Tic | 1 | Fractured Nasal Bone | 1 |
Corneal Nebulre | 4 | Furunculosis | 14 |
Corneal Ulcer | 2 | Ganglion | 2 |
Cough | 20 | Gastritis | 2 |
Croup | 1 | Gastrodynia | 4 |
Cuts (various) | 4 | General Depression | 1 |