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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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MEDICAL INSPECTIOK OF PUPILS ATTENDING
MAINTAINED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
TABLE 54.
A. - PERIODIC MEDICAL INSPECTIONS,
Number of Inspect ions In the prescribed Groups :
•
Entrants
1,832
Second age group
1,499
Third age group
752
Total
4,083
Number of other Periodic Inspections
3,040
Grand Total
7,123
B. - OTHER INSPECTIONS.
7,50k
6,052
Total
13,556
C„ - PUPILS FOUND TO REQUIRE TREATMENT0
Number of Individual pupils found at periodic medical inspections to
require treatment (excluding dental diseases and Infestation with vermin).
TABLE 55o
Group
For defective
vision
(excluding
squint)
For any of this
other
conditions
recorded in
Table 56A
Total
individual
pupils
Entrants
8
542
547
Second age group
163
271
395
Third age group
97
82
171
Total (prescribed groups)
268
895
1,113
Other periodic inspections
209
597
667
Grand Total
477
1,492
1,780