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Acton 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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Group V.—Uncleanliness and Verminous Conditions.
Average number of visits per school made during the year by the School
Nurses 15
Total number of examinations of children in the Schools by School
Nurses 27425
Number of individual children found unclean:—
Verminous and Nits 155
Slightly infested 596
Number of children cleansed under arrangements made by the Local
Education Authority 27
Number of cases in which legal proceedings were taken:—
(o) Under the Education Act, 1921 —
(6) Under School Attendance Byelaws —
STATEMENT OF THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN NOTIFIED DURING
THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1931, BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION
AUTHORITY TO THE LOCAL MENTAL DEFICIENCY AUTHORITY.
Total number of children notified —
Analysis of the above Table.
Diagnosis. Boys. Girt*.
1. (i) Children incapable of receiving benefit or further benefit
from instruction in a Special School:
(а) Idiots - —
(b Imbeciles — —
(c) Others - -
(ii) Children unable to be instructed in a Special School
without detriment to the interest of other children :
(а) Moral defectives — —
(б) Others — —
2. Feeble-minded children notified on leaving a Special School
on or before attaining the age of 16 — —
3. Feeble-minded children notified under Article 3, i.e., " special
circumstances" cases — —
4. Children who in addition to being mentally defective were
blind or deaf — -
Grand Total — —
I am,
Your obedient Servant,
D. J. THOMAS,
Schetl Medical Officer.