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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
East Ham 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Medical Inspection and Re-inspection at Schools.
TABLE 37.
| School | Infant | Junior | Secondary | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | R | S | I | R | S. | I | R | S | |
| (a) Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools: | |||||||||
| Altmore | 61 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Avenue | 67 | 82 | 2 | 198 | 177 | 10 | — | — | — |
| Brampton | 183 | 78 | 1 | 333 | 206 | 17 | 218 | 103 | 4 |
| Central Park | 74 | 22 | 5 | — | — | — | 186 | 119 | 2 |
| Cornwell | — | — | — | — | — | — | 174 | 38 | — |
| Dersingham | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Essex | 121 | 37 | 2 | — | — | — | 223 | 178 | 19 |
| Hartley | 186 | 67 | 6 | 176 | 137 | 15 | — | — | — |
| Kensington | 46 | — | — | 104 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lathom | — | — | — | 265 | 234 | 7 | — | — | — |
| Monega | 90 | 35 | 1 | — | — | — | 222 | 87 | 12 |
| Napier | 57 | 25 | — | — | — | — | 200 | 179 | 4 |
| Salisbury | 98 | 33 | 1 | 190 | 123 | 2 | — | — | — |
| Sandringham | 76 | 49 | 10 | — | — | — | 186 | 1ll | 3 |
| Shaftesbury | 141 | 76 | — | 391 | 357 | 11 | — | — | — |
| Storey Street | 27 | 6 | 1 | 36 | 33 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Vicarage | 85 | 62 | — | 137 | 94 | 5 | 130 | 158 | 2 |
| Winsor | 38 | 8 | — | 47 | 18 | 4 | — | — | — |
| Wakefield Central | — | — | — | — | — | — | 231 | — | — |
| Boys' Grammar | — | — | — | — | — | — | 229 | 114 | — |
| Girls' Grammar | — | — | — | — | — | — | 399 | 44 | 24 |
| Technical School of Building | — | — | — | — | — | — | 145 | 20 | 1 |
| (b) Voluntary Schools (R.C.): | |||||||||
| Castle Street | 29 | 5 | — | 13 | 22 | — | — | — | — |
| St. Michael's | 36 | — | — | 6 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — |
| St. Winefride's | 60 | 16 | — | 33 | 31 | 4 | — | — | — |
| Silvertown | 28 | 4 | 14 | 20 | — | — | — | — | |
| Totals | 1,547 | 605 | 30 | 1,943 | 1,453 | 80 | 2,543 | 1,151 | 71 |
I.—Periodic inspection. R.—Re-inspection. S.—Special inspection.
Age Groups, General Condition, Co-operation of Parents.
TABLE 38.
| Group | Total inspected | Parents present | Requiring treatment | *General Condition. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | |||||||||
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||
| I. | 1755 | 1529 | 87.1 | 394 | 22.5 | 260 | 14.8 | 1476 | 84.1 | 19 | 1.1 |
| II. | 2910 | 1768 | 60.7 | 522 | 17.9 | 334 | 11.5 | 2535 | 87.1 | 41 | 1.4 |
| III. | 1368 | 373 | 27.3 | 185 | 13.5 | 115 | 8.4 | 1241 | 90.7 | 12 | 0.9 |
| Totals 1947 | 6033 | 3670 | 60.8 | 1101 | 18.3 | 709 | 11.7 | 5252 | 87.1 | 72 | 1.2 |
| 1946 | 5438 | 3487 | 64.1 | 1158 | 21.3 | 772 | 14.2 | 4436 | 81.6 | 230 | 4.2 |
| 1945 | 3604 | 2178 | 60.4 | 706 | 19.6 | 412 | 12.3 | 2894 | 86.4 | 44 | 1.3 |
| 1944 | 2471 | 1984 | 80.2 | 315 | 11.1 | 301 | 12.2 | 2162 | 87.5 | 8 | 0.3 |
| 1943 | 4453 | 3133 | 70.4 | 617 | 13.8 | 446 | 10.0 | 4000 | 89.8 | 7 | 0.2 |
*Described as Nutrition prior to 1947.