London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Tower Hamlets 1972
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]
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TABLF 53 SCHOOL HEALTH STATISTICS
| Pupils on School Rolls (May 1972) | |||||
| Under 5 years - full time | 1, 228 | ||||
| part-time | 1, 640 | ||||
| Infants | 6, 591 | ||||
| Junior | 9, 873 | ||||
| Seniors | 10, 976 | ||||
| Special | 922 | ||||
| 31,230 | |||||
| Recuperative Holiday Homes | |||||
| Number of schoolchildren (including Nursery schoolchildren) admitted during the year | 408 | ||||
| Health Surveys | |||||
| N | o. examined | Occasions vermin found | Percentage | ||
| (a) Comprehensive | 21,943 | 902 | 4, 11 | ||
| (b) Selective | 16,751 | 1, 521 | 9. 08 | ||
| No. of individual pupils found verminous | 1.116 | ||||
| Percentage of school roll | 3.57 | ||||
| Vermin - occasions advice and/or shampoo given | 1,860 | ||||
| - occasions attendance at bathing center | 563 | ||||
| (c) Communicable disease - No. examined for | 869 | ||||
| Routine Audiometer Testing | |||||
| No. of children given screening test | 3, 707 | ||||
| No. failing screening test and given pure tone test | 279 | ||||
| No. failing pure tone test and referred to Otologist | 173 | ||||
| School Medical Treatment | |||||
| Clinic | No. of premises | Sessions in year | New Cases | Attendances | |
| Audiology | 1 | 84 | 202 | 549 | |
| Bathing | 2 | 576* | 788 | 1, 622 | |
| Minor Ailments - Medical | |||||
| Officer | 1 | 39 | 287 | 17,305 | |
| - Nurse | 8 | 740 | 1,026 | j | |
| Ophthalmic | 4 | 245 | 1,471 | 3,094 | |
| Orthoptic | 1 | 72 | 54 | 174 | |
| Special investigation | 3 | 202 | 160 | 1,565 | |
| * includes also adult sessions | |||||
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