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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Tower Hamlets 1971

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]

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Table: TABLE 54

TABLE 54

SCHOOL HEALTH STATISTICS
Pupils on School Rolls
1,168
part-time1,407
Infants6, 902
Juniors10,275
Seniors11, 327
Special979
Total;32,058
Recuperative Holiday Homes
Number of schoolchildren (including Nursery schoolchildren)
admitted during the year333
Health Surveys
No. examinedOccasions vermin found Percentage
(a) Comprehensive22,7817863.45
(b) Selective15, 6031,4559.38
No. of individual pupils found verminous1, 181
Percentage of school roll3.68
Vermin - occasions advice and/or shampoo given1, 951
- occasions attendance at bathing centre290
(c) Communicable disease - No. examined for1,420
Routine Audiometer Testing
No. of children given screening test3, 567
No. failing screening test and given pure tone test270
No. failing pure tone test and referred to Otologist...157
School Medical Treatment
ClinicNo. of premisesSessions in yearNew CasesAttendances
Audiology180165453
Bathing2576*1, 0921,736
Minor ailments - Medical Officer468532)
- Nurse8771898)
Ophthalmic42541,5642, 955
Orthoptic17649139
Special investigation31921481,401
*includes also adult sessions