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Croydon 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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APPENDIX A.
MEDICAL INSPECTION RETURNS.
Year ended 31st December, 1947.
Table I.
MEDICAL INSPECTION OF PUPILS ATTENDING MAINTAINED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
| A.—Periodic Medical Inspections. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Inspections in the prescribed Groups: | |||
| Entrants | 3,003 | ||
| Second Age Group | 1,543 | ||
| Third Age Group | 1,163 | ||
| Total | 5,709 | ||
| Number of other Periodic Inspections | 49 | ||
| Grand Total | 5,758 | ||
| B.—Other Inspections. | |||
| Number of Special Inspections | 5,096 | ||
| Number of Re-Inspections | 9,415 | ||
| Total | 14,511 | ||
| Group | For defective vision (excluding squint). | For any of the other conditions recorded in Table 1IA | Total individual pupils. |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Entrants | 16 | 997 | 1011 |
| Second Age Group | 119 | 390 | 504 |
| Third Age Group | 117 | 174 | 283 |
| Total (prescribed groups) | 252 | 1561 | 1798 |
| Other Periodic Inspections | 3 | 7 | 9 |
| Grand Total | 255 | 1568 | 1807 |