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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
Bromley 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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| (i) Total number of examinations in the schools by the school nurses or other authorised persons | 653 |
| (ii) Total number of pupils on roll of schools visited | 697 |
| (iii) Total number of individual pupils found to be infested | Nil. |
| (iv) Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing notices were issued (Section 54 (2), Education Act, 1944) | Nil. |
| (v) Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing orders were issued (Section 54 (3), Education Act, 1944) | Nil. |
| (i) Total Number of examinations by school nurse | 101 |
| (ii) Total number of pupils on roll | |
| (iii) Total number of pupils found to be infested | Nil |
| Total number of treatments given | 1,396 |
| Number of new cases | 71 |
| Number of cases on occlusion alone | |
| Number of cases found unsuitable | 5 |
| Number of cases postponed | |
| Number of cases failed to attend | 16 |
| Number of cases put down for operation | 37 |
| Number of cures, with operation | 8 |
| without operation | 9 |
| Number of sessions, 1953 | 249 |
| Number of sessions, 1952 | 293 |
| 1. Blind | 2. Partially Sighted | 3. Deaf | 4. Partially Deaf | 5. Delicate | 6. Physically Handicapped | 7. Educationally Sub-normal | 8. Maladjusted | 9. Epileptic | T 0 T A L 1-9 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (I) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | |
| 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | |||||||
| B. Handicapped Pupils newly ascertained as requiring education at Special Schools or Boarding in Homes | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
| Number of children reported during the year: — (a) under Section 57 (3) (excluding any returned under (b) ) | 5 | |||||||||
| (b) under Section 57 (3) relying on Section 57 (4) 1st | Nil. | |||||||||
| (c) under Section 57 (5) of the Education Act, 1944. | 6 | |||||||||