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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 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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(2) 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 only in Column 4.

Table: Similarly a child suffering from two defects other than detective vision should appear once only in Column 3 and once in Column 4.

Similarly a child suffering from two defects other than detective 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)
Entrants10106116
Second Age Group123121232
Third Age Group17070228
Total (Prescribed Groups)303297576
Other Routine Inspections-——
Grand Total303297576

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NOTES ON TABLE I.
(a) 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