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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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SCHOOL HEALTH STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1956
| Total (All Schools) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. MEDICAL INSPECTION OF PUPILS (a) PERIODIC | |||||
| Number of children examined at school:— | |||||
| (i) Entrants | 1,141 | ||||
| (ii) Second age group | 1,067 | ||||
| (iii) Third age group | 1,010 | ||||
| (iv) Others | 3,320 | ||||
| Total | 6,538 | ||||
| Number of defects found requiring treatment | 980 | ||||
| Number of defects found requiring observation | 622 | ||||
| Number of individual pupils found to require treatment | 915 | ||||
| Nu tional classification of pupils examined:— | |||||
| Satisfactry | 1,138 | 1,067 | 1,005 | 3,272 | 6,482 |
| Unstisfactory | 3 | — | 5 | 48 | 56 |
| (b) SPECIAL | |||||
| Number of children specially examined (including medical ninations for School Camps, Boxing and Part-time Employment) | 11,285 | ||||
| Number of defects found requiring treatment | 6,928 | ||||
| Number of defects found requiring observation | 328 | ||||
| (c) RE-SPECTION Number of children re-inspected | 8,588 | ||||
| 2. TREA ENT OF CHILDREN (a) Total attendances at Specialists' Clinics:— | |||||
| (i) Nose and Throat | 678 | ||||
| (ii) thopedic | 2,628 | ||||
| (iii) nopaedic | 54 | ||||
| (iv) diatric | 341 | ||||
| (v) n | 624 | ||||
| (b) Total attendances at Treatment Clinics:— (i) nor Ailment | 23,151 | ||||
| (ii) opody | 817 | ||||
| (iii) lopaedic | 3,240 | ||||
| (iv) optic | 1,824 | ||||
| (v)'Spech Therapy | 2,519 | ||||
| (vi) Skin | 3,135 | ||||
| (c) Number of children who received operative treatment for tonsi nd adenoids | 195 | ||||
| 3. HOME VSITING | |||||
| Total number of visits made by School Nurses | 1,771 | ||||
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