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Physical condition of pupils
The classification of pupils' physical condition at medical inspections during 1964 and
the four preceding years is set out below.
Physical condition
Nutrition defect noted for
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory
Treatment
Observation
%
%
%
%
1960
99.0
10
0.2
0.5
1961
99.2
0.8
0.2
0.4
1962
99.4
0.6
0.2
0.4
1963
99.4
0.6
0.2
0.4
1964
99.4
0.6
0.2
0.5
Tabulation by years of birth permits the comparison of samples of children of the same
age group and is analogous to a ' follow.up ' survey. The last five years' figures are:
Percentage unsatisfactory physical condition
Year of birth
Year of examination
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1945
0.4
—
—
—
—
1946
0.6
| 0.4
—
—
—
1947
0.8
0.4
0.3
—
—
1948
0.9
0.6
0.3
0.4
—
1949
0.9
0.6
0.5
0.5
0.3
1950
2.2
0.6
0.5
0.6
0.6
1951
1.6
1.7
0.4
0.5
0.7
1952
11
1.5
0.9
0.5
0.6
1953
1.8
1.0
0.9
1.2
0.7
1954
1.8
1.2
0.8
0.8
1.1
1955
1.2
1.8
0.9
0.8
10
1956
10
0.7
0.8
0.8
0.5
1957
—
0.8
0.6
11
0.9
1958
—
—
0.8
0.7
10
1959
—
—
—
0.6
| 0.5
1960 and later
—
—
—
—
0.3
School meals and milk
The Department of Education and Science asked for a return for a typical day of the
total number of (i) day school children who had school dinners and (ii) children who had
school milk. The day selected for the census was 22 September or the nearest normal school
day thereto. The figures are set out below with those for 1963 in brackets.
Number of Number who took
Type of school children school dinners
present On payment Free Total %
Secondary 152,895 91,877 8,076 99,953 65.37
(158,824) (95,347) (8,010) (103,357) (65 08)
Primary 207,319 121,281 15,014 136,295 67 19*
(205,055) (115,640) (14,098) (129,738) (64.22)
Special 5,553 4,235 1,239 5,474 98.58
(5,652) (4,275) (1,233) (5,508) (97.45)
Nursery 1,961 755 69 824 98.211
(1,870) (885) (95) (980) (96.55)
367,728 218,148 24,398 242,546 66.98*
(371,401) (216,147) (23,436) (239,583) (65.19)
* Percentage of 202,846 children, as 4,473 children attended half time and did not have dinners.
†Percentage of 839 children, as 1,122 children attended half time and did not have dinners.
‡Percentage of 367,505 children.
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