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in average attendance per session of 18. Authority was obtained
from the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee, as occasion
demanded, for extra sessions to be held to cope with the additional
work. Early in the year under review it was found necessary to
authorise a permanent arrangement for two additional sessions to be
held each month, and this was effected as from 1st April, 1935.
School Entrants.
In order that information relating to the early nurture and illnesses
of children and to the general home conditions, in the possession of the
Health Visitors and the doctors at the Infant Welfare Centres, may be
made available for the School Medical Officer, records relating to the
health of these children are entered on special cards supplied by the
London County Council for that purpose, which are forwarded to the
County School Medical Officer.
Through the kindness of the Medical Officer of Health and
School Medical Officer of the London County Council, I am enabled
to submit the following highly interesting tables, showing the result
of routine examinations of 778 elementary school entrants in Hampstead
during 1935. I am also informed of any school children in the
Borough who are found, at the routine School Medical Inspection, to
be below normal so far as their nutritional condition is concerned.
Special equiries are made at their homes to ascertain whether or not
there are any children under school age similarly below normal nutrition
who may. by chance, be unknown to my Health Visitors.