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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
for the
Year ending 31st December, 1938,
on the
HEALTH OF PUPILS ATTENDING SECONDARY AND JUNIOR
TECHNICAL, ETC., SCHOOLS IN WILLESDEN.
Giving the Tables required by the Board of Education.
Secondary and Technical Schools are under the control of the Middlesex County Council.
Medical Inspection has been carried out at the Secondary and Technical Schools, by agreement
with the Middlesex County Council, in accordance with the arrangements set out in the 1930
Annual Report.
The Middlesex County Council's Scheme for Dental Inspection and Treatment of Dental Defects
and for Ophthalmic Treatment came into operation during 1935. Secondary and Junior Technical,
etc., School Pupils are now inspected annually by the Council's Dental Surgeons, and Dental and
Ophthalmic Treatment are available at the Council's Health Centres.
Table No. 38.—Corresponding to Table I. of the Board of Education's Medical Statistical Tables.
Return of Medical Inspections for the Year ended 31st December, 1938.
A.— Routine Medical Inspections. Number of Inspections in the prescribed Groups.*
Pupils examined. Aged. | Secondary Schools. | Junior Technical, etc., Schools. | Total. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boys. | Girls. | Total. | Boys. | Girls. | Total. | Boys. | Girls. | Total. | |
10 years | 3 | 6 | 9 | — | — | — | 3 | 6 | 9 |
11 „ | 71 | 116 | 187 | — | — | 71 | 116 | 187 | |
12 „ | 182 | 185 | 367 | — | 1 | 1 | 182 | 186 | 368 |
13 „ | — | 9 | 9 | 86 | 59 | 145 | 86 | 68 | 154 |
14 „ | — | 8 | 8 | 97 | 84 | 181 | 97 | 92 | 189 |
15 „ | 133 | 175 | 308 | 170 | 123 | 293 | 303 | 298 | 601 |
16 „ | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | — | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
17 „ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Total | 390 | 500 | 890 | 353 | 267 | 620 | 743 | 767 | 1,510 |
Note that in the above table a pupil examined as an entrant, and subsequently as having
attained his or her birthday during the preceding term, is counted twice, that is as 2 cases.
* During 1938 the following groups have been submitted to Routine Medical Inspection at the Secondary and Junior
Technical, etc., Schools in Willesden:—
(a) All entrants. (b) Pupils aged 12 years. (c) Pupils aged 15 years.
B.—Other Inspections.
Secondary Schools. | Junior Technical, etc., Schools. | Total. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boys. | Girls. | Total. | Boys. | Girls. | Total. | Boys. | Girls. | Total. | |
Number of Special Inspections | 22 | 18 | 40 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 26 | 25 | 51 |
Number of Re-inspections | 117 | 194 | 311 | 110 | 174 | 284 | 227 | 368 | 595 |
Total | 139 | 212 | 351 | 114 | 181 | 295 | 253 | 393 | 646 |