[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking] page 9

Barking 1928

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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(4) MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The foundation of a School Medical Service is laid in medical
inspection, and every child is submitted to routine medical inspection
three times during its school life.
These medical inspections have for their object the detection
of unrecognised and untreated defects, but they have an objective
much wider than this in the classification of all defects, whether
recognised or unrecognised, treated or untreated.
These routine inspections are a health census of the school
population and enable you to determine if and whether your
system of education is being carried on without detriment to the
health of the children, or, as I prefer to put it, to enable you to
determine what physical benefits are conferred on the children by
the course of education you provide.
From this wider standpoint it is necessary to examine physically
healthy children as well as defective children, because otherwise
your statistics are likely to represent a state of affairs less
favourable than actually exists.

Table: The table I am herewith including, which is a modification of Table II B to be found in the appendix to this Report, shows the number of children who have been examined and the number of defective children referred either for treatment or for observation.

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The table I am herewith including, which is a modification of Table II B to be found in the appendix to this Report, shows the number of children who have been examined and the number of defective children referred either for treatment or for observation.

	Entrants.	Intermediates	Leavers.	Specials.	Other Routine Examinations.	Total.
No. of children examined	946	687	581	141	126	2,491
No. referred for treatment	143	115	71	70	22	421
No. referred for observation	184	113	54	53	10	414
Percentage of defective children	34.6	33.2	21.2	87.3	26.9	33.5

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Table: The table I am herewith including, which is a modification of Table II B to be found in the appendix to this Report, shows the number of children who have been examined and the number of defective children referred either for treatment or for observation.