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Wimbledon 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Wall boards have been provided for two classrooms at
Dundonald Road Junior Girls' and Infants' School, and two
classrooms at Wimbledon Park School in place of the portable
blackboards and easels formerly in use.
Dundonald Road Junior Girls' and Infants' School, Wimbledon
Park School, and All Saints Junior Mixed School have
each been supplied with twenty-five dual table desks and fifty
chairs for use with these desks. The seating of the All Saints
Junior Mixed School has been improved further by the transfer
of the desks thus displaced from the Dundonald Road and
Wimbledon Park Schools.
4. MEDICAL INSPECTION.
(a), The children medically examined were those in the
three groups prescribed in the Board of Education (Special
Services) Regulations, 1925. These include:—
(i) Entrants: i.e., those children admitted to school
for the first time since the last routine medical
inspection.
(ii) Second Age Group: i.e., those children who have
attained their eighth birthday since the last routine
medical inspection, or who will be nine years of
age during the current year.
(iii) Third Age Group : i.e., those children who have
attained their twelfth birthday since the last
routine medical inspection, or who will be thirteen
years of age during the current year.
In 1937 arrangements were made for an additional Age
Group to be medically inspected in the Boys' and Girls' Central
School. The children in this Age Group were scholars who
had attained the age of fourteen years during the year under
review.
Entrants to the new Nursery Class at the Dundonald Road
School were also medically examined at each of the two visits
paid to the school by the school medical inspector.

There were medically inspected in the schools during the year 1938:—

Entrants533
Second Age Group533
Third Age Group450
Fourth Age Group119
Total1,635