London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Bexley 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]
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TABLE I.
Medical Inspection of Pupils Attending Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools.
| A. — Periodic Medical Inspections. | |||
| Number of Inspections in the prescribed Groups: | |||
| Entrants | 1,619 | ||
| Second Age Group | 737 | ||
| Third Age Group | 754 | ||
| Total | 3,110 | ||
| Number of other Periodic Inspections | 729 | ||
| Grand Total | 3,839 | ||
| B. — Other Inspections. | |||
| Number of Special Inspections | 3,980 | ||
| Number of Re-Inspections | 4,115 | ||
| Total | 8,095 | ||
| C. — Pupils Found to Require Treatment. Number of Individual Pupils found at Periodic Medical Inspection to require Treatment: | |||
| Group | For defective vision (excluding squint) | For any of the other conditions recorded in Table HA | Total Individual pupils |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Entrants | 16 | 309 | 318 |
| Second Age Group | 76 | 125 | 185 |
| Third Age Group | 73 | 111 | 173 |
| Total (prescribed groups) | 165 | 545 | 676 |
| Other Periodic Inspections | 92 | 272 | 256 |
| Grand Total | 257 | 817 | 932 |