[Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1923
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![TABLE S 2. Return of Defects found in the course of Medical Inspection and refeiTed for treatment in 1923. This table is, except as regards the final line, a record of defects and not of individual children who are defective. For the sake of convenience cases of Squint are recorded also under the heading of Defective Vision,” and cases of defect of Nose and Throat are included in one only of the sub-headings. Routine ; [nspections i ♦ Specials Defects or Di.sease No. refer- red for treatment Not for treatment but kept ^ under ob- servation ; No. refer- red for treatment Not for ■ treatment but kept under ob- servation Malnutrition 7 Unclcanlincss .. Head — — — Body — — — 26 188 Body 11 — 66 Scabies 21 — 84 Impetigo 16 — 428 Other diseases (noii-tubercular) 19 — 145 1 8 59 Conjunctivitis 4 — 244 Keratitis — — — Corneal ulcer — — 17 Corneal opacities 1 — 2 Defective vision 432 5 119 Squint 49 — 38 Other conditions 3 62 Ear Defective hearing 19 21 1 Otitis media 23 162 Other ear diseases 9 — 21 Nose and Enlarged tonsils 140 — 43 Adenoids 64 — 17 Enhirged tonsils and adenoids 88 — 15 Other conditions 13 — 110 Enlarged cervical glands (non-tub ere ular) 3 — 7 Defective speech 2 — 1 — Teeth Dental diseases 343 — 99 Heart and circulation— Heart disease—Organic 20 7 9 4 Functional 49 10 IS 2 Antemia 54 4 36 2 Lungs Bronchitis — — no Other non-tubercular diseases — 40 72 3 Tuberculosis ...Pulmonary—Definite 1 — — Suspected... 12 1 7 — Xon-pulmonary—Glands 4 1 5 — Spine — — — — Hip — — — Other bones and joints — — — — Skin — — Other forms 3 — Nervoussyst‘>n .E])ile})sy 1 — 3 2 Chorea 4 — j 19 Other conditions — — 19 Deformities Rickets 8 1 6 Spinal Curvature 3 — 1 Other forms 10 — 21 __ Minor injuries — — 97 Other defects and diseases 103 1 806 6 No. of individual children having defects which required treatment 4028 •See footnote t in Table I.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927175_0119.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
