[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow].

  • Walthamstow (England). Borough Council.
Date:
[1944?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    9/34 (page 7)
    (d) Visual Defects and External Eye Diseases The number of patients requiring treatment and observation was as follows 1943 1942 Treat ment. Obser vation Treat ment. Obser vation Visual defects 195 40 215 42 Squint 62 7 114 8 External Eye Diseases 51 2 72 4 (e) Nose and Throat defects - The number of patients requiring treatment and observation was as follows:- 1943 1942 Treat ment. Obser vation. Treat ment. Obser vation. Chronic Tonsillitis 249 176 256 225 Adenoids only 17 10 4 3 Chronic Tonsillitis & Adenoids.. 45 29 41 21 Other conditions 321 8 294 90 The 321 cases of other conditions are made up of sore throat and defects requiring diastello treatment. (f) Ear Disease and Defective Hearing - Patients requiring treatment:- 1943 1942 Defective Hearing 39 28 Otitis Media 120 75 Other ear diseases 161 114 (g) Orthopaedic and Postural Defects - A total of 175 deformities was found to require treatment. (h) Dental Defects- Inspec tion. Requiring Treatment Per Cent Actually treated Fill ings Extrac tions. General Anaesthetics Other Oprtns 1943 8051 6842 84.9 39&3 5521 4473 2608 2246 1942 7730 5851 75.6 3210 5670 3962 2213 1572 Reference to dental inspection and treatment at Secondary Schools and Technical Schools is made in section 16. (i) Heart Disease and Rheumatism - The findings were as follows - ] 1943 1942 Treat ment. Obser vation Treat ment. Obser vation Heart Disease - Organic 2 2 13 6 3 Functional 19 7 7 11 50 - 38 10 (j) Tuberculosis - The same arrangements as for 1938. (k) Other defects and diseases - The following table shows the numbers of various other defects which were found to require treatment Enlarged Glands 163 Bronchitis 60 Chorea 3 Speech 27 Epilepsy 3 Other defects 1284 7.