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Routine Medical Inspection of Elementary School Children in Battersea, 1936.
BOYS.
GIRLS.
Total.
Percentage.
Entrants
Age 7
Age 11
Age 14
Entrants
Age 7
Age 11
Age 14
Batt.
London.
Number examined
1,052
695
856
852
962
747
844
862
6,870
Clothing and boots—
Good
815
531
587
634
779
580
611
675
5,212
75.9
56.4
Fair
236
164
268
218
182
167
233
187
1,655
24.1
43.2
Poor
1
—
1
—
1
3
0.0
0.4
Nutrition—
Good
61
37
46
76
90
75
71
96
552
8.0
16.6
Average
883
556
730
717
793
604
707
724
5,714
83.2
77.4
Below normal
104
102
79
59
79
68
65
42
598
Bad
4
—
1
—
—
—
1
—
6
8.8
6.0
Cleanliness of head—
Clean
1,045
692
853
850
953
734
836
852
6,815
99.2
97.5
Nits
7
2
2
2
6
9
7
6
41
0.6
2.2
Pediculi
—
1
1
—
3
4
1
4
14
0.2
0.3
Cleanliness of body—
Clean
1,048
694
854
852
960
745
843
861
6,857
99.8
99.2
Dirty
4
1
2
—
1
2
1
1
12
0.2
0.7
Pediculi
—
—
—
1
1
0.0
0.1
Teeth—
All sound
511
427
591
652
482
455
590
606
4,314
62.8
70.5
Less than 4 decayed
488
251
255
195
441
273
252
251
2,406
35.0
26.1
Four or more decayed
53
17
10
5
39
19
2
5
150
2.2
3.4
Vision—
6/6 in both eyes
—
526
588
604
569
600
603
3,490
72.1
66.2
6/9 in either or both eyes
—
101
106
92
—
98
92
106
595
12.3
19.3
6/12 or worse in both eyes
66
159
154
—
76
i.
153
756
15.6
14.5