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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

Barking 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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Table: The following table shows the number of children examined at routine and special inspections during 1925, classified according to the schools attended, the number of inspections held in each school and the number of parents or guardians present :—

The following table shows the number of children examined at routine and special inspections during 1925, classified according to the schools attended, the number of inspections held in each school and the number of parents or guardians present :—

School.No. of inspections.Numbers inspected.No. of parents present.
Boys.Girls.
Gascoigne24276282367
North St23220198292
Castle3351729
Creeksmouth1336
Westbury18180197269
Ripple17181163246
Faireross710708127
VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS.
Church of England13132111127
Roman Catholic8697475

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(5) FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.
Table II., Appendix (a), gives a return of defects found
during the course of routine examination. Of those examined
at routine and special inspections, 756, or 32.2 per cent., had
some defect, and the actual percentage requiring treatment was
25.1.
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(a) Malnutrition.—Twenty-one cases were found on inspection
sufficiently serious to require treatment, and 23 others were
specially watched, most of the cases found being already in
attendance at the open-air classes of the Special School.
The main causes of malnutrition are probably environmental
in origin, followed to a minor extent by improper or insufficient
food. The belief is gaining ground that one of the principal
causes of malnutrition in young children, apart from other obvious
cause, is tuberculosis, usually contracted at an earlier period of