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SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE.
In the following table information is given regarding school
accommodation and attendance, together with the number of
children medically examined and treated. This gives some
indication of the increase in the work which the department has
been called upon to perform in successive years. In addition to
children attending the elementary schools, pupils attending the
secondary schools in the Borough were also examined and treated
in accordance with arrangements which have been made with the
Middlesex Education Committee.
1934 1935 1936 1937
Population (Mid-year
estimate)
133,446 137,550 145,000 156,460
No. of school departments 43 47 47 50
Accommodation 14,906 16,749 17,359 19,369
Average number on School
Rolls during year
14,077 14,463 15,251 17,062
Percentage of school children
to population
10.5 10.5 10.5 10.9
Average attendance during
year
12,489 12,932 13,358 14,952
Percentage attendance 88.7 89.4 87.5 87.6
No. of children examined
at routine inspection
5,900 5,533 5,996 6,415
Percentage of school
children examined at
routine inspection
41.9 38.1 39.3 37.6
Total number of children
who were examined at
least once during year
9,780 9,541 10,364 11,527
Percentage of children
who were examined at
least once during year
69.5 66.0 67.9 67.5
There were therefore 419 more children examined in the year
at routine medical inspection than in the previous year and 1,163
more children were examined at least once.