Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beckenham]
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"B': Other Inspections.
Number of Special Inspections and Re-Inspections - 2,872
table II .
Classification of the Nutrition of Children Inspected during the Year in the Routine Age Groups.
Number of Children Inspected | a | b | C | D | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Excellent | Normal | Slightly sub-normal | Bad | ||||||
No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||||
No. | % | ||||||||
1940 | 1394 | 374 | 26,83 | 927 | 66.5 | 90 | 6.46 | 3 | 0.21 |
1941 | 1614 | 430 | 26.65 | 1008 | 62.46 | 176 | 10.89 | 0 | 0.00 |
TABLE III
Treatment of Minor Alliments.
Total Number of Defects treated or under treatment
during the year under the authority's Scheme was 1,621.
Treatment ef Defective Vision and Squint
Errors of Refraction dealt with under the Authority's
Scheme vere 457.
The number of children for whom spectacles were prescribed
was 91, end for whom they were obtained was 86.
Treatmcnt of/ Defects of Nose and Throat,
61 children received operative treatment under the
Authority's Scheme, and 124. received other forms of treatment,
making a total cf 185.
TABLE IV
Dental Inspection and Treatment
Particulars of treatment under this heading will be
found in the Dental Surgeon's Report.
TABLE V.
Verminouo Condition.
(1) Average number of visits per school made during the year by the School Nurse | 11 |
(2) Total number of examinations of children in the Schools by School Nurse | 6,751 |
(3) Number of individual children found unclean | 27 |