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Vision
The following table is a statement of the visual acuity of pupils
whose vision was tested at routine medical inspections divided into those
not wearing and wearing glasses, together with the proportion noted for
treatment or observation.
6/6 6/9 6/12 Noted
or worse for Treatment
Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls
A.Not
Wearing.
Glasses 79.7(78.7) 76.1(75.1) 8.2(8.5) 9.3(9,5) 6.3.(6.6) 6.3(6.5) 6.3(6.1) 6.7(6.7
B.Wearing
Glasses 2.8(2.4) 4.1(3.6) 1.3(1.3) 2.1(2.6) 1.7(2.5) 2.1(2.7) 2.0(2.6) 3.6(3.7
Number Tested Boys 3,694 (3,703)
Girls 3,986 (4,019)
C.Boys & Girls Percentage of number tested with and without glasses-
Noted for treatment Noted for observation Total Noted for
treatment or
observation
9.3(9.5) 9.0(10.0) 18.3(19.6)
Personal Hygiene
The hygiene inspection of each child once a term was replaced by the
former London County Council in 1959 by an annual comprehensive survey of
each pupil plus such additional health surveys as were thought necessary or
desirable at selected individual schools or departments, and this practice
has been continued. Details of the work done under the cleansing scheme
are shown below. The emphasis of the cleansing scheme, as now carried out,
is on the children being cleansed by the parent at home where other verminous members of the family may, in the privacy that the home affords,
also use the Lorexane No.3. shampoo distributed by the school nursing department; hence eradicating a possible source to the child of recurring infestation.
It is the practice for the school nurse, prior to the commencement of
school term, to visit families with a record of infestation to ensure that
the children are clean and fit to return to school. This practice has continued to be of considerable value.
Findings at Health Surveys-1968
School Roll-May 1968 26,733 (26,394)
1. Comprehensive Surveys
(a) Number examined 24,962 (26,067)
(b) Number (occasions) found
verminous 196 (268)
(c) Percentage found verminous 0.78 (1.03)
D.4