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London County Council 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Subject matter.Page number of report for the year.
1929.1930.1931.1932.1933.1934.
Milk meals : Report as to condition of children55
Myope classes in secondary and central schools523489
Myopes: Gentiles and Jews47
Nutrition centres60
Nutrition : Comparison of various schools12
Open-air education : Photographs56
Ophthalmia in residential institutions48
Orthodontics22
Otorrhcea, Control of24
Partially-sighted schools69
P.D. children : Absentees76
Plantar warts17
" Poor-law " schools : Medical arrangements1215
Postural defects : Secondary and trade schools50
Preventive and curative treatment of children 14-16 years of age4578
Provision of meals : Comparison of numbers in provided and non-provided schools37
Residential schools: Control of infectious diseases92
Residential schools for defective children38
Rheumatism : Review of scheme35
„ Symptoms43
Rickets and dental disease in relation to tonsils and adenoids7
Ringworm: Outbreak on T.S. " Exmouth "5546
Sandpits45
Scarlet fever : Active immunisation48
Scarlet fever immunisation: Cyril Henry treatment centre5043
School buildings : New planning37
School feeding : Policy of Council54
School medical service : Outline of activities2
School medical service : Progress during 25 years5
Secondary and trade schools, Overpressure in15
Secondary and trade schools : Unification of medical service9
Secondary and trade schools : Nutrition90
Smallpox among school children919086
Special schools : Ages of children76
Special schools : Children from poor-law schools68
Squint: Treatment at Paddington treatment centre34
Stammering: Causes and treatment2735 1
Vaccination, Recording of6
Voluntary bodies, Co-operation with72
Wick special dental centre and special report2827

Wage-earning employment of school children.
In the year 1935, 3,460 applications (3,429 boys and 31 girls) were dealt with
under the by-laws for medical certificates in connection with the employment of
school children out of school hours.
The nature of the work for which certificates were granted unconditionally
is shown below ; the first numbers are in respect of boys, the figures for girls being
given in brackets : delivery of milk, 273 (—); delivery of newspapers, 1,774 (11);
carrying or delivery of goods or parcels, 645 (6); in or in connection with a shop,
271 (5); in a coal yard, 7 (—); industrial work at home, 1 (1); house work away
from home, 12 (5); as a messenger, 48 (—); miscellaneous 5 (—).
In 282 other cases the certificates were granted subject to medical treatment
being obtained, or special conditions being observed. Certificates on medical or
other grounds were refused to 113 boys and 1 girl for the following reasons : rheumatism,
2 ; dental condition, 3 , defective vision, 9 ; heart condition, 5 : scoliosis, 1 ;
poor general condition, 10 ; nervous condition, 1 ; broken arm, 1; stunted growth,