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Nutritional Classification
Total No.
examined ABC
% % %
Doctor 1 450 25. 69. 6.
Doctor 2 1,087 38. 62.
Doctor 3 2,568 47. 53.
Doctor 4 203 47.29 52.22 .49
Doctor 5 4,628 70.9 29. .1
Doctor 6 2,433 77.8 22.1 .1
It shows that Doctors 1, 2, 3 and 4 (especially 1 and 2) placed
most children in Group B. They obviously took "B" as average,
"A" as particularly good and "C" as bad. On the other hand Doctors
5 and 6 regarded "A" as satisfactory, "B" as "not so good" and "C"
as very poor.
I have carefully examined the figures for each school and am
convinced that at these differences cannot be explained by the fact that
each doctor broadly speaking covers one area of the Borough. To
take one example the doctor placing the second lowest number of
children into category "A" has schools where one might expect the
children's health to be highest.
There is no doubt that differences of similar magnitude occur in
the statistics of other authorities and to me it provides further evidence,
if such were needed, of the futility of collecting such statistics. The
Ministry should seriously consider dropping this classification.
Cleanliness Inspections
The number of these fell somewhat during 1954, but the proportion
of children found infested remained at about 0.7%.
Total number of examinations in the schools 16,572
Number of pupils found to be infested 118
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