[Report 1933] / School Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough.

  • Blackpool (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / School Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    admission as in-patients. All cases of chronic inflammatory conditions of the eye which do not yield to local treatment are refracted. Altliough the vision when tested on Snellen’s Types may be normal, there is often a slight error of refraction present and the constant muscular effort to overcome this produces irritation, watering of eyes, conjunctivitis or blepharitis. One hundred and three cases attended the clinic for treatment during the year as follows — Conjunctivitis 1 Blepharitis Corneal Ulceration Hordeolum Keratitis Tinea Tarsi 42 6 52 2 1 XII. TONSILS AND ADENOIDS. Operation was not advised in any case of Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids unless it was certain that the inflammatory condition had been present for a period varying from six months to two years according to the severity ol the case. Throat paints, nasal douching and the use of nasal ointments for the reduction of nasal and post-nasal catarrh were used and many cases of throat and nose trouble were on re-inspection found to be greatly improved. In those children who were found after the above treatment still to require operation the surfaces of the throat and nose had thus been rendered less inflamed and less liable to profuse haemorrhage at the time of operation. Detailed numbers :— Total number of cases of enlarged tonsils andyor adenoids found .. . . .. . . .. 201 Number found recpiiring further supervision and medical treatment but no operation meantime . . Ill Number found re{piiring o]ieration after supervision. . 01 Number found impro\’ed and taken off list .. .. 20