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 Bromley]
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TABLE V. Infestation with Vermin. Primary and Secondary Schools.
(i) Total number of examinations in the schools by the school nurses or other authorised persons | 18,253 |
(ii) Total number of pupils on roll of schools visited | 7,206 |
(iii) Total number of individual pupils found to be infested * In addition, 82 pupils showed minor evidence of infestation. | 6* |
(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. |
Grammar and Technical Schools.
No examinations were found necessary at these schools.
Occupation Centre.
(i) Total number of examinations by school nurse 151
(ii) Total number of pupils on roll 65
(iii) Total number of pupils found to be infested Nil.
TABLE VI. Orthoptic Clinic.
Total number of treatments given | 1,096 |
Number of new cases | 101 |
Number of cases on occlusion alone | 6 |
Number of cases found unsuitable | 12 |
Number of cases postponed | 356 |
Number of cases failed to attend | 52 |
Number of cases put down for operation | 25 |
Number of cures—with operation | 12 |
without operation | 7 |
Number of sessions, 1954 | 285 |
TABLE VII.
Year 1954. Handicapped Pupils Requiring Education at Special Schools (other than Hospital Schools) or Boarding in Boarding
Homes.
1. Blind | 2. Partially Sighted | 3. Deaf | 4. Partially Deaf | 5. Delicate | 6. Physically Handicapped | 7. Educationally Sub-normal | 8. Maladjusted | 9. Epileptic | T O T A L 1—9 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | |
A. Handicapped Pupils newly placed in Special Schools or Boarding Homes | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 4 | — | — | — |
B. Handicapped Pupils newly ascertained as requiring education at Special Schools or Boarding in Homes | — | — | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 | — | — |