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Special Enquiries.
the Infants' Departments, as might be expected, suffer
most. With regard to the other causes, there are so
great differences between the figures for the departments
in the same school and for similar departments in
different schools that comparison is difficult.
In the individual departments the percentages of
absences due to illness vary greatly, a reduction in the
percentage being apparent in nearly all the departments
just before or after the Easter holidays, the reduction
being more marked in some than others, but especially
apparent at St. Stephen's and North Ealing Schools.
Comparing the different departments, Table III.,
the variations in percentages of absence due to illness
are not very great—83.1 in Little Ealing Boys', 83.4
in St. Stephen's Boys', and 91.7 in Lammas Boys'
School; 81.3 in North Ealing Girls', 85.3 in Little
Ealing Girls' and 86.3 in Lammas Girls' School; and
85.5 in North Ealing Infants', 93.6 in Little Ealing
Infants', and 95.8 in Lammas Infants' School. The
difference between 85.5 in North Ealing Infants' School
and 95.8 in Lammas Infants' is the most striking of all.
Taking all the schools and all the departments,
Table III., it is seen that the average percentage of
absences due to illness is as high as 89.9 per cent.,
leaving only 10.1 per cent. due to other causes. The
percentage of absences due to illness was on one occasion
as high as 95.8 per cent. in Lammas Infants' School
and 93.6 in Little Ealing Infants' School, and as low
as 81.3 in North Ealing Girls' and 83.1 in Little Ealing
Boys' Schools.
(Signed) THOMAS ORR,
School Medical Officer.