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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
Croydon 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Inspection of Selected Children.
| Referred for defects suspected by head teachers, attendance officers, school nurses, care committees, etc. | 2345 |
| Other cases— | |
| (i) Fitness for employment in accordance with | |
| Bye-laws regulating the employment of young | |
| persons— | |
| Examined | 375 |
| Fit | 373 |
| Unfit | 2 |
| (ii) Candidates as bursars and student teachers ... | 33 |
| (iii) Children examined under " The Employment of Children in Entertainments Rules, 1920 "— Seen | — |
| Granted | — |
Defective Chidren re-examined 6770
(a) Routine medical inspection was conducted in all cases on
the elementary school premises.
(b) The Board of Education's schedule of medical inspection
has been followed in its entirety.
(c) The early ascertainment of crippling defects is affected
through routine medical inspection at the schools; through the
examination of children at a special clinic for the physically defective,
held at first at 228, London Road, and since the middle of
the year at the Town Hall; through information received from
health visitors, school attendance officers and local voluntary
associations; through child welfare centres; through the tuberculosis
dispensary. To these must be added the Orthopaedic Clinic
established in July, 1925, at the Croydon General Hospital, by the
co-operation of the Hospital Board with the Corporation.
FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Details of the defects found during medical inspection are set
out in Table 11A and I Ib, at the end of this report.
Out of the 8,269 children examined as routine cases, 1,278, or
15.4 per cent., required treatment for conditions other than uncleanliness
and dental diseases.
(a) Uncleanliness.
Routine medical inspection does not, for obvious reasons,
afford a good measure of the prevalence of uncleanly conditions.