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 Brent]
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MEDICAL INSPECTION AND TREATMENT
Number of pupils on registers of maintained primary, secondary, special and nursery schools 38,328
Part I.-—Medical Inspection of Pupils attending Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools
(including Nursery and Special Schools)
Table A.—Periodic Medical Inspections
Age Groups inspected (by year of birth) | No. of Pupils who have received a full medical examination | Physical Condition of Pupils Inspected | Pupils found to require treatment (excluding dental diseases and infestation with vermin) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
for defective vision (excluding squint) | for any other condition recorded at Part II | Total individual pupils | ||||
Satisfactory | Unsatisfactory | |||||
No. | No. | |||||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) |
1963 and later | 660 | 658 | 2 | 7 | 29 | 33 |
1962 | 2,380 | 2,362 | 18 | 60 | 118 | 168 |
1961 | 1,368 | 1,354 | 14 | 46 | 79 | 125 |
1960 | 323 | 319 | 4 | 12 | 32 | 41 |
1959 | 1,441 | 1,434 | 7 | 75 | 64 | 126 |
1958 | 615 | 613 | 2 | 46 | 37 | 77 |
1957 | 965 | 960 | 5 | 46 | 52 | 94 |
1956 | 1,324 | 1,319 | 5 | 81 | 78 | 146 |
1955 | 636 | 636 | — | 23 | 39 | 59 |
1954 | 196 | 195 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 13 |
1953 | 820 | 816 | 4 | 23 | 43 | 63 |
1952 and earlier | 1,906 | 1,895 | 11 | 97 | 110 | 193 |
Total | 12,634 | 12,561 | 73 | 524 | 687 | 1,138 |
Col. (3) total as a percentage
of Col. (2) total 99.43% to two places
Col. (4) total as a percentage of decimals,
of Col. (2) total 0.58%
Table B. Other Inspections
Notes:—A special inspection is one that is carried out at the special request of a parent, doctor, nurse, teacher
or other person.
A re-inspection is an inspection arising out of one of the periodic medical inspections or out of a special inspection.
Number of Special Inspections | 3,355 |
Number of Re-inspections | 2,623 |
Total | 5,978 |
Table C. Infestation with Vermin
(a) Total number of individual examinations of pupils in schools by school nurses or other authorised persons | 14,198 |
(b) Total number of individual pupils found to be infested | 176 |
(c) Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing notices were issued (Section 54 (2), Education Act, 1944) | 49 |
(d) Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing orders were issued (Section 54 (3), Education Act, 1944) | 1 |