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Wood Green Education Committee.
SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944.
Public Health Department,
Convent School,
Earlham Grove,
Wood Green, N.22.
July 21th, 1945.
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 1944. As this is the last of these reports which
will be presented to the Wood Green Education Committee as a
Part III Education Authority, I have thought it advisable to make
the report a little more full than it has been during the years of the
war, so as to put on record some account of the medical services
which a Part III Authority for a district like Wood Green has been
able to provide for the school children under its care.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Table I in the Appendix gives the number of children inspected
in the different routine age-groups, and also the number of special
inspections and re-inspections. The numbers inspected were rather
larger than in the previous year.
NUTRITION.
Table II shows the state of nutrition of the children inspected
in the different routine age-groups, and again there is practically
no change from previous years and no evidence that there has been
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