[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch] page 109

Shoreditch 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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ROUTINE MEDICAL INSPECTION OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENTRANTS IN SHOREDITCH IN 1938

Table No. 101

	Number examined	Clothing and boots			Nutrition				Cleanliness of head			Cleanliness of body			Teeth
	Number examined	Good	Fair	Poor	Excellent	Normal	Slightly sub-normal	Bad	Clean	Nits	Pediculi	Clean	Dirty	Pediculi	All sound	Less than 4 decayed	4 or more decayed	For treatment
Entrants:—
Boys	653	269	367	17	48	568	36	1	543	105	5	596	52	5	361	246	46	280
Girls	589	223	354	12	45	500	44	—	490	95	4	551	36	2	333	207	49	240
Total	1,242	492	721	29	93	1,068	80	1	1,033	200	9	1,147	88	7	694	453	95	520
Percentage, Shoreditch		39.6	58.1	2.3	7.5	860	6.5		83.2	16.1	0.7	92.3	7.1	0.6	55.9	36.5	7.6	41.9
Percentage, London		55.8	43.9	0.3	15.3	78.2	6.5		98.1	1.7	0.2	98.9	1.0	0.1	59.7	32.7	7.6	38.0