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SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE
Nutrition.
The summary of heights and weights over 10 years which is printed at the
end of this Report in Tables VII A. and B. shows no appreciable change.
Incidence of Pediculosis and Scabies.
(i) Pediculosis.—7 children were found to be infected with living hair
vermin as against 5 in 1950, 33 in 1949, 56 in 1948 and 49 in 1947.
(ii) Scabies.—There was one case reported during the year, as compared
with none in 1950, 5 in 1949, 19 in 1948, and 43 in 1947.
School Premises.—There are 32 schools, with 61 departments, 22,543
children were actually on the rolls on 21st December, 1951, as compared with
21,497 in December, 1950.
The figure 22,543 includes Barking Abbey (379) and Ursuline County
Placed pupils (240).
The number of children in average attendance at school for the year
ended 18th December, 1951 = 17,677.
The Sanitary Inspectors have paid the usual monthly visits to the
elementary schools (1) to enquire as to the milk supplies, (2) to inspect the
sanitary arrangements. 749 visits have been made during the year.
Medical Inspection.—In accordance with the Handicapped Pupils and
Medical Services Regulations, 1945 (para. 49), this is carried out as follows :—
(а) Every pupil who is admitted for the first time to a maintained
school shall be inspected as soon as possible after the date of his
admission.
(b) Every pupil attending a maintained primary school shall be
inspected during the last year of his attendance at such a school.
(c) Every pupil attending a maintained secondary school shall be
inspected during the last year of his attendance at such a school.
During 1951 4,533 parents, or 77 per cent., attended the full routine
medical inspections.

Of this number 1,305 were notified as measles
Disinfection of all the cloakrooms at the maintained primary and
secondary schools was carried out during the Summer and Winter vacations
No schools were closed during the year on account of infectious disease.
Table VI shows the incidence of infectious disease in the Ilford schools
during 1951.
319 home visits were paid by the School Nurses to cases of minor
infectious disease. In addition the Sanitary Inspectors paid 1,267 visits to
measles cases, and 321 visits to whooping-cough cases.
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