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to the fact that no classroom was available at Haydons Road
Girls' School, nor at Haydons Road Infants' School, the medical
inspection of these scholars was carried out at the Church Institute
which is situated quite near. The accommodation here for
the purposes of medical inspection is quite suitable. The same
difficulty has arisen in connection with St. Mary's Junior and
Senior Mixed School at Russell Road. As this school is situated
quite near the Pelham Road Health Centre, the medical inspection
of these scholars was carried out there.
5. FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
In Table IIa (which is appended) is given a list of all defects
found during medical inspection, whether routine or non-routine.
Table 11b gives the number of individual children found at the
routine medical inspection to require treatment, excluding
uncleanliness, and dental diseases.
1,905 children were examined at the routine medical
inspection. 332 or 17.4% were found to be suffering from
defects (excluding uncleanliness and denial diseases) requiring
treatment. The percentage of defects was found to be slightly
higher amongst the "intermediates" than amongst the
"entrants" and "leavers." During 1930 the percentage of children
with defects found at the routine medical inspections throughout
the country was 20.9.
(a) Uncleanliness. 14 or 0.7% of the children examined at
the routine medical inspection were found to be unclean and
excluded from school. In addition 9 were found to require
further observation in school on account of this condition, and
were kept under supervision.
During the year 1930, 9 children or 0.5% of those examined
at the routine medical inspection required to be excluded from
school on account of uncleanliness.
The School Nurse-Health Visitors continued to carry out
the systematic inspection of all the scholars in their schools three
times a year, i.e., after the Christmas, Easter, and Mid-Summer
holidays. This inspection reveals not only unclean children, but
also children suffering from defective vision, minor ailments,
anaemia, malnutrition, etc. These latter children are referred
either to their own doctors or to the Health Centre where they
are seen by one of the school medical staff.
The number of examinations of children carried out in the
schools by the School Nurses amounted to 12,694. This means
that nearly every child was inspected for uncleanliness three
times during the year. On an average, the nurses paid 7 visits
to each school.
A much higher standard of cleanliness has been insisted
upon during the last few years and there is no doubt a very considerable
improvement has been effected.
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