[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow].
- Walthamstow (England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- [1942?]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![RHEUMATISM CLINIC 1941 Number of sessions 24 attendances 278 new cases 81 old cases 197 discharged 58 still under treatment 86 of new cases with rheumatic or cardiac defect 5 referred to hospital as In-patient - Out-patient 14 for tonsils and adenoids operation 14 dental treatment 7 to Physically Defective Centre 1 excluded from school 4 half time school 1 from games and exercises 5 to begin games and exercises 3 seen after scarlet fever 2 seen after Diphtheria 3 referred for convalescent home treatment 15 sent away 15 referred to Open Air School 1 (j) Tuberculosis. The number of school children examined during the year was boys 44 and girls 45, of which 4 boys and 9 girls were referred by the school medical staff. 16 of the cases were sent by private practitioners, end 60 were examined as contacts. At the end of the year the live register of notified cases of school age was - Pulmonary 21, Non-pulmonary 30. (k) Artificial Sunlight Treatment. as for 1940. 8. INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Notification in the 5-15 years age group during 194}. was as follows (1940 cases, shown in parenthesis) - scarlet fever 62 (49) diphtheria 17 (6), Pneumonia ]6 (4), erysipelas 1 (nil), cerebro spinal meningitis 5(2), measles 611 (28), whooping cough 171 (4). The last two named diseases were made notifiable in October 1939. Among the cases discovered by the medical staff and included above were scarlet fever 1, non-clinical diphtheria 1. Non-notifiable infectious diseases is chiefly brought to light by the weekly returns made by Head Teachers under the local Regulations as to Infectious Diseases in Schools. The monthly figures were as follows:- Sore Throat Measles Whooping Cough Mumps Chicken Pox Ringworm & Scabies Impetigo Sores etc January - 75 - 7 8 1 - February - 30 15 - 1 - 1 March - 20 1 4 - - 3 Apri1 - 240 3 1 5 - 1 . May 2 347 50 6 1 3 3 June — 76 62 - 3 - 2 July — 4 61 - — 1 1 August - - - - - - September 1 - 50 1 1 1 5 October - 1 51 1 - - 2 November - - 47 9 - - 2 December - — 26 - 2 8 2 Total 3 793 366 29 21 14 22 The following are the weekly average numbers of children away from school owing to exclusions and the non-notifiable infectious 11.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b19876567_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
