[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council.

  • Fife (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table II.— Continued. Second Age Third Age Entrants. Group. Group. Fourth Age Group. All Ages. Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Forward .1305 1280 996 955 903 1234 71 38 3275 3507 Ears— (a) Diseases: Otorrhoea . 15 19 13 12 4 23 1 33 54 Other diseases .. . 72 63 84 51 55 45 3 3 214 162 (6) Defective Hearing 1 Grade I 13 11 7 9 9 13 1 30 33 Grade Ha. . — — 2 1 1 3 — — 3 4 Grade lib. . — — — — — — — _ Grade III. . 2 1 — — 1 — — — 3 1 Speech- Defective articulation Stammering Mental and Nervous Condition— (a) Backward (due to irregular attend- ance, &c.) (b) Dull (intrinsically) (c) Mentally defective (educable) (d) (uneducable) (e) Highly nervous or unstable (/) Difficult in be- haviour Circulatory System— (a) Organic Heart Disease: 20 13 — 3 — — 32 1 — 14 — 7 — 48 1 — 6 — — — 8 — 4 (fc) Acquired (infan- tile paralysis) Congenital 8 8 4 2 1 1 13 11 Acquired 6 5 6 7 6 10 — — 18 22 (6) Functional con- ditions 19 11 7 6 8 14 1 — 35 31 Lungs— Chronic bronchitis ... 28 11 12 6 13 8 53 25 Suspected tubercu- losis 2 2 1 2 2 1 5 5 Other diseases 40 44 25 17 12 11 2 79 72 Deformities— (a) Congenital 23 19 7 10 12 5 1 43 34 able) rickets 42 27 18 6 16 15 2 1 78 49 (d) Acquired (other causes) 55 46 51 39 54 35 4 1 164 121 Infectious Disease ... 3 1 — 1 2 3 4 Other Diseases or Defects 83 76 39 53 27 47 1 1 150 177 46 4326 4411 TOTAL ...1779 1672 1299 1196 1160 1497 88