[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham].

  • West Ham (London, England). County Borough.
Date:
[1937]
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    Behaviour Problem and Maladjusted Children. Anxiety States— Including Nerves, Morbid fears, Tan trums, Food Fads, Night Terrors, Enuresis 22 Stammering 1 Epilepsy 1 Chorea 3 Post Encephalitis 2 Habit Spasm 1 Neurological Cases— Little's Disease 2 Bell's Palsy 1 Congenital Mental Defect 7 40 Results in Cases Considered Suitable for Treatment. Recovered Relieved Subsequent failure to attend Still under treatment No improve ment Psychoses — 3 2 2 — Psycho Neuroses - 5 — 3 1 Behaviour Problems 4 11 2 3 — Cases recommended to Mental Hospital as Voluntary Patients 19 Actually admitted 16 Of these, ten have been discharged during the year either recovered or relieved. Laboratory Work. Bacteriological work is carried out at several of the Council's Institutions. At Plaistow Fever Hospital, in addition to the routine Bact eriological work, facilities are available for medical practitioners to have a report on any case of suspected diphtheria, typhoid, or cerebro-spinal fever. At the Tuberculosis Dispensary in Balaam Street, the Tuber culosis Officer deals with specimens submitted for examination as to the presence of tubercle bacillus. Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford, which is a voluntary insti tution, carries out the bacteriological examination of samples of graded milk, ordinary milk, and various other articles. 33