Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford]
This page requires JavaScript
Total (All Schools) | |
1. Medical Inspection of Pupils | |
(a) Periodic No. of Pupils examined at school | |
(i) Entrants | 1923 |
(ii) Second age group | 1852 |
(iii) Third age group | 1990 |
(iv) Other periodic examinations | 79 |
Total | 5844 |
Number of defects found requiring treatment | 1324 |
Number of defects found requiring observation | 2109 |
Number of individual pupils found to require treatment | 1190 |
Nutritional classification of pupils examined Satisfactory | 5841 |
Unsatisfactory | 3 |
(b) SPECIAL | |
Number of pupils specially examined | 511 |
Number of defects found requiring tretment | 320 |
Number of defects found requiring observation | 80 |
(c) Re-inspections | |
Number of pupils re-inspected | 664 |
2. Treatment | |
(a) Total attendances at Specialist Clinics:- | |
(i) Ophthalmic | 1821 |
(ii) Orthopaedic | 380 |
(b) Total attendances at treatment clinics:- | |
(i) Minor Ailment | 2527 |
(ii) Physiotherapy | 3434 |
(iii) Speech Therapy | 3787 |
3. Hygiene Inspections | |
(i) Number of examinations of pupils in schools | 12817 |
(ii) Number of pupils found unclean | 70 |
4. Dental Treatment | |
(i) Number of pupils inspected | 9018 |
(ii) Number found to require treatment | 4819 |
(iii) Attendances for treatment | 7325 |
(iv) Number of fillings: Permanent teeth | 3462 |
Permanent teeth | 2803 |
(v) Number of teeth filled: Permanent teeth | 2798 |
Temporary teeth | 2551 |
(vi) Number of teeth extracted: Permanent teeth | 322 |
Temporary teeth | 1218 |
(vii) Number of general anaethetics administered | 586 |
(viii) Other operations | 3674 |
page 31