[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashton-under-Lyne Borough.

  • Ashton-under-Lyne (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashton-under-Lyne Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provision of Dried Milk During 1940, 19,207 packets of dried milk were sold at the Centres. 1,131 were sold at half-price and 7,878 were provided free, in accordance with the income scale adopted. The net cost to the Council amounted to £478 2s. 6d. Orthopaedic Treatment Parents are charged for hospital treatment according to means, and each individual case is considered by the Committee. With regard to the Ashton-under-Lyne Maternity and Child Welfare cases, the following table is a summary of the work done during 1940 at the Orthopaedic Clinic:— No. of individual pre-school children attending Clinic 71 ,, of attendances at Clinic (pre-school children) ... 161 ,, referred to Manchester Royal Infirmary) 1 ,, of children recommended to Biddulph for operative treatment 0 „ of Consultant Sessions ,.. 12 „ recommended for remedial exercises 4 - ,, recommended for surgical appliances 28 A classification of the conditions for which the above 71 individual children were treated is set out below:— 1. Rickets 1 2. Genu-Valgum (Knock-knee) 22 3. Genu-Varum (Bow-leg) 2 4. Spurious-Valgum (Flat-foot) 5 5. Calcaneo-Varus 3 6. Torticollis (Wry-neck) 11 7. Infantile Paralysis 1 8. Infantile Hemiplegia ... 0 9. Postural Deformities ... 0 10. Traumatic or Inflammatory Conditions ... ... 0 11. Congenital Deformities 6 12. Other Conditions 20 71