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(b) Uncleanliness. Since 1933 a record of every unclean
child found by the nurses in their inspections has been kept,
no matter how slight or trivial the degree of uncleanliness.
At present, the standard in Wimbledon is undoubtedly high.
At the routine medical inspections no child was found to be
unclean. During 1937, three children, or 0.16% of those
examined as routines 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 MidSummer
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 12,595. On an
average, the nurses paid seven visits to each school.
The total number of individual unclean children found
by the nurses during their systematic inspections of the
schools during 1938 amounted to two hundred and seventythree.
This is a decrease of eighty-eight on the figure for
1937 when the number was three hundred and sixty-one.
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