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74
£
3. Additional Dental Clinic Sessions 41
4. Day Nursery.
£
Staff 500
Food 300
Establishment (loan charges, rates, taxes,
insurance) 150
Heating, lighting 150
Other expenses 200
1300
Less income from parents' payments 200
1100
Total Cost of Maintenance (Items 1—4) ... £4759.
The only one of these proposals which was actually
put into operation during the year was the increase in
the number of sessions of the Dental Clinic and the
inauguration of a routine dental inspection of 3 and
4 year old children. This has been referred to in an
earlier part of this report.
MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL
CHILDREN.
The need for more active measures to prevent the
onset of unhealthy conditions in children is abundantly
shown by figures which have been courteously furnished
to me by the County School Medical Officer with regard
to the medical inspection of the school children in the
Borough. It will be seen that more than half the
children inspected upon their entry into school life are
found to require medical treatment.
In nutrition and in soundness of teeth and vision,
Bethnal Green children are well under the average