[Report 1930] / School Medical Officer, Somerset County Council.

Somerset Council

Date:: 1930

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Credit: [Report 1930] / School Medical Officer, Somerset County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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TABLE V. Summary of Treatment of Defects during 1929. Referred N umber treated. Results of treatment. Number not treated, or no report. 1 I 1 Percentage treated. Disease or Defect. for treatment Remedied. Improved. Unchanged Minor Ailments .al3 414 322 64 58 00 82 Visual Defects (includ- ing Squint) . L>78 1043* ](d4 0 20 171 87 Defects of Nose and Throat . I2()3 021 633 164 124 342 73 Dental Defects 27i 177 73 82 00 07 6.3 Malnutrition . 101 00 12.3 44 38 83 Defective Hearing 3'.) 30 14 10 6 O 77 Defective Speech 7 (j 1 3 2 L 86 Enlarged Cervical Glands (Non-T.B.)... 20 2i 14 0 1 5 83 Heart Disease— Organic . (•)2 44 10 8 26 18 71 Functional . 7 5 1 I 3 o 71 Anaemia . 1.30 JI7 ,30 40 18 oo 84 Lung Disease (Non-T.B.) 40 40 28 8 4 9 82 T uberculosis— Pulmonary— Definite . 13 12 0 6 6 1 02 Suspected . 2i 21 1 1.3 5 3 88 Non-Pulmonary 2i 00 4 15 3 2 02 Disease of Nervous System . 28 24 11 g 4 4 86 Deformities . 3t)7 270 1.3 184 80 11.3 71 Goitre . 232 1.33 8 34 III 70 66 Other 273 210 100 56 54 77 Ill lalditioii 6-i children attended and were examined but no treatment was necessary.