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for nose and throat affections is due to the fact that all children having any abnormality that
would be noted for treatment or observation at a school examination have been counted.
Deformities include all grades of flat-foot, knock-knee, scoliosis, etc. Dirty heads numbered 129.
Table III is an analysis of the 512 cases of sickness, injury, or minor ailment amongst the
children and staff. Tonsillitis was rather prevalent but all cases made a rapid recovery. In
all 38 children were sent to hospital.
On 1st November the work of mental examinations was taken over by Miss Fildes, Ph.D.,
of the London child guidance clinic. The figures in Table IV show the results of her examinations
and of those of the medical officer for the earlier months. Thirty-one children were deemed to
be certifiable as mentally deficient or feeble-minded, and there was one moral defective.
Compared with the figures for 1932, educational attainments show a higher level of purely
academic knowledge. Particulars are set out in Table V.
The co-operation of the superintendent, Mr. M. T. Jones, and the staff has been of great
assistance in the keeping of records and in the medical work generally.