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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hendon 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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Table: NOTE.— No individual child should be counted more than once in any column of this Table; for example, a child suffering from defective vision and from adenoids should appear once in Column 2, once in Column 3 and once onlyin Column 4. Similarly a child suffering from two defects other than defective vision should appear once only in Column 3 and once in Column 4.

NOTE.— No individual child should be counted more than once in any column of this Table; for example, a child suffering from defective vision and from adenoids should appear once in Column 2, once in Column 3 and once onlyin Column 4. Similarly a child suffering from two defects other than defective vision should appear once only in Column 3 and once in Column 4.

Group.For defective vision (excluding squint).For all other conditions recorded in Table II A.Total.
(1)(2)(3)(4)
Entrants9202210
Second Age Group187133303
Third Age Group12371186
Total (Prescribed Groups)319406699
Other Routine Inspections———
Grand Total319406699

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NOTES ON TABLE I.
(а) The return refers to a complete calendar year.
(b) This heading relates solely to the routine medical inspection
of the three ordinary age groups, i.e., to medical inspection carried
out:—
(i) in compliance with Article 17 of the Consolidated Regulations
relating to Special Services—Grant Regulations
No. 19;
(ii) on the school premises (or at a place specially sanctioned
by the Board);
(iii) for the purpose of making a report on each child on the
lines of the approved Schedule set out in Circular 582.
(c) Under this heading may be recorded routine inspections, if any,
of children who do not fall under the three prescribed age-groups, e.g.,
routine inspections of a fourth age-group or of other groups of children,
as distinct from those who are individually selected on account of some
suspected ill-health for " Special " Inspection.
(d) A Special Inspection is a medical inspection by the School
Medical Officer himself or by one of the Medical Officers on his staff
of a child specially selected or referred for such inspection, i.e., not
inspected at a routine medical inspection as defined above. Such
children may be selected by the Medical Officer during a visit to the
School or may be referred to him by the Teachers, School Nurses,