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Wood (Green £ducation Committee.
SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1942.
Public Health Department,
Convent School,
Earlham Grove,
Wood Green, N. 22.
June 17th, 1943.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Wood Green Education Committee.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to present to you my Annual Report as School Medical
Officer for the year 1942. The Board of Education has requested
that the Annual Report should again be as brief as possible so that
only the barest outline of the school medical service is given.
STAFF.
There have been no changes in the School Medical Staff during
the year.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Table 1 in the Appendix gives the numbers of children inspected
in the different age-groups at the routine medical inspections,
while Table II gives a classification of the state of nutrition of the
children inspected in these age-groups. The number inspected
in 1942 was very much higher than in the previous year, the vast
majority of the evacuated children having now returned to Wood
Green, and was very little less than that of a normal year before
the war.
NUTRITION.
The state of nutrition of the children inspected in the different
routine age-groups is set out in Table II, and does not show any
appreciable change from pre-war years. Thus of the total number
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