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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Willesden 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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The medical inspection of school children included
inspection and examination in respect of the following:—
Height and Weight.
Clothing and Footgear.
Cleanliness of Head and Body.
Nutrition.
Nose and Throat.
Cervical or Neck Glands.
External Eye Disease.
Ear Disease.
Teeth.
Heart and Circulation.
Lungs.
Nervous system.
Skin.
Rickets.
Deformities.
Tuberculosis—Non-pulmonary.
Speech.
Mental Condition.
Squint.
Vision.
Infectious Illness History.
B. ROUTINE MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Number of Children Inspected.—The following Table,
No. 73, gives the number of children inspected during 1914,
classified for age and sex, and is in the form required by
the Board of Education:—