London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Acton 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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45
MEDICAL INSPECTION RETURNS.
TABLE I.
Medical Inspection of Pupils attending Maintained Primary and
Secondary Schools (including Special Schools).
A Periodic Medical Inspections.
Number of Inspections in the prescribed groups.
Entrants 887
Second Age Group 731
Third Age Group 631
Total 2249
Number of other periodic inspections 251
Grand Total 2500
B.—Other Inspections.
Number of Special Inspections 46
Number of Re-Inspections 1815
1861
C.—Pupils found to Require Treatment.
Number of Individual Pupils found at Periodic Medical Inspection
to require treatment (excluding Dental Diseases and Infestation with
Vermin).
NOTES.—(1) Pupils found at Periodic Medical Inspection to require
treatment for a defect should not be excluded from
this return by reason of the fact that they are already
under treatment for that defect.
(2) No individual pupil should be recorded more than
once in any column of this Table, and therefore the
total in column (4) will not necessarily be the same
as the sum of columns (2) and (3).
Group.
0)
For
defective vision
(excluding squint).
(2)
For any of the other
conditions recorded
in Table II.a.
(3)
Total
individual
pupils.
(4)
Entrants 34 80 109
Second Age Group 113 38 142
third Age Group 90 27 116
Total (prescribed groups) 237 145 367
Other Periodic Inspections 3 4 7
Grand Total 240 149 374