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(5) FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.
Table II on page 44 gives in detail a return of defects found
during the course of routine inspection.
It will be seen that the number of cases of malnutrition found
during these inspections remains practically the same as last year.
It may be taken that, generally speaking, a fairly high standard
is demanded, and that there are very few children indeed in Barking
who are in dire need of something to eat. The part you play
in supplying free meals is a small price to pay for such an assurance
as this.
(a) Uncleanliness.—With reference to uncleanliness and
inspections for this condition, I have to report thai not quite so
many children were actually examined as last year and that
happily an even smaller number actually and relatively were found
unclean.
Herewith, in deference to precedent, I am submitting a table
of the inspections which have been carried out in the different
schools, but, as last year, I wish to make it perfectly clear that the
figures cannot be used strictly for comparing school with school as
to the efficiency. Different schools have vastly different problems
to face, and strict comparison is impossible.
There is, however, one fact I wish to stress, and that is that for
any boy to have vermin of the head is an utter disgrace to himself