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Recommendations:—
Day schools for the delicate 11(1)
Day schools for physically handicapped children 10 (12)
Boarding open air schools 2(11)
After physical medical examinations, vision and hearing tests other children were examined, under
Section 34 of the Education Act 1944, by specially trained medical officers and recommendations were
approved by a Principal Medical Officer who specialised in this work. Arrangements were made for
interpreters to attend at 35 (44) of these examinations.
Recommendations:—
Day schools for educationally subnormal children 88 (89)
Boarding schools for educationally subnormal children - (1)
Continue at ordinary school possibly with extra help in reading, arithmetic, etc. 64 (66).
5 (7) children were recommended for home tuition.
SCHOOL NURSES' INSPECTIONS
Most pupils are examined annually by the school nurse for cleanliness of the head and other aspects, e.g.
squint, ear discharge and nutritional state. They referred children where necessary for further investigation
or treatment. During 1970 24,675 (24,618) of these comprehensive health surveys were held.
1.27% (0.88%) were found verminous.
10,052 (10,230) selective health surveys were carried out when necessary and 2.0% (1.92%) were found
verminous.
All infants were given an audiometer test as soon as possible after entry to school.
HEALTH EDUCATION
All school nurses carried out health education, usually on an informal basis, during their usual nursing
duties in school.
REMEDIAL FOOT CLASSES
The Inner London Education Authority continued to employ two part-time organisers of remedial
classes to assist with the arranging and running of simple exercise classes by teachers who had attended a
course organised by the Education Officer at the College of Physical Education.
The head teachers of seven schools in the Borough kindly continued to make the necessary arrangements
to enable classes to be held in their schools and teachers there co-operated by volunteering for and carrying
out this work.
It was unfortunate that the number of schools in which these classes were held was reduced during the
year due to teachers trained becoming no longer available.
All classes were visited by a medical officer at the beginning and end of each term.
AUDIOLOGY
All infants were given a routine sweep test as soon as possible after entry to school. 6,222 (7,025)
children were tested in this way by school nurses in 1970. If these tests showed any doubt as to the
normality of the child's hearing, a pure tone test was also given by a specially-trained school nurse. 72 (83)
of these tests were carried out during the year and 72 (83) children were found to have defective hearing
and were referred for further investigation. 35 (35) audiology sessions were held at which the total
attendances were 171 (254).
At the end of the year 69 (75) children were in attendance at audiology clinics. 4 (6) were provided with
hearing aids during the year making a total of 109 (135) children still attending Islington schools who have
been provided with them.
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