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93
1933 1934 935 1936 1937
Percentage of children vaccinated
37 37 37 39 30
DEFECTS FOUND AT ROUTINE MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Uncleanliness.—Of 3,967 children examined 5 were found to have
vermin in their heads and 202 had nits.
The comparative figures for the last five years are as follows :—
1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
Number of children examined 2,869 3,378 3,436 3,819 3,967
Number of children with verminous
heads 21 15 7 11 5
Percentage of children with
verminous heads 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.1
Number of children found
to have nits 224 279 182 220 202
Percentage of children found
to have nits 7.8 8.2 5.0 5.8 5.1
In no case during the year was a child found to have body vermin.
Nutrition.— At the end of 1934 the Chief Medical Officer of the
Board of Education requested that nutrition in children should be
classified under the four headings :—
A Excellent.
B Normal.
C Slightly sub-normal.
D Bad.
The number of children examined in routine inspection in 1937
was 3,967, and the following table shows how they were classified,
with comparative figures for 1935 and 1936:-
1935 1936 1937
Number of children examined 3,436 3,819 3,967
Number of children classified "A" 38 295 270
Percentage of children classified " A " 1.1 7.7 6.8
Number of children classified " B " 2,286 1,953 2,708
Percentage of children classified " B " 66.6 51.1 68.1
Number of children classified " C " 1,056 1,116 843
Percentage of children classified " C " 30.6 29.3 21.3
Number of children classified " D " 56 455 146
Percentage of children classified " D " 1.7 11.9 3.7