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Hendon 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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Petition education Committe
SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
ON THE
Medical inspection ot Children
(YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1913).
Ladies and Gentlemen,—
I have pleasure in submitting to you the Sixth Annual
Report on the Medical Inspection of the Schools under your
authority, and in doing so I would like to point out that the
year's work is remarkable not only because of the very great
increase in the number of children examined but also by reason
of the increase in the number of children who were specially
examined, either at the Schools or at the Council Offices,
because of defects found at the first examination. The close
attention to these cases has, in my opinion, resulted in many
of the children being saved a considerable amount of suffering
because of their more rapid recovery to health, whilst the
fact that they returned earlier to School must have been of
benefit to them educationally.