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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
Kingston upon Thames 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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St. Agatha's School.
All classrooms, staircases, passages and cloakrooms
have been re-decorated.
St. John's School.
All classrooms, cloakrooms, corridors and lavatories in
all departments have been re-decorated.
Elm field—Physically Defective School.
Warm-air independent stove for classroom.
School Clinic.
Ceilings and walls of the Clinic and waiting-room have
been distempered.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
All departments of every school are visited by the School
Medical Officer each term, when Routine Medical Inspections
of the three age groups, re-inspections and examination
of special cases are carried out.
The procedure of the above examinations was set out in
detail in my Annual Report for 1920.
Parents are always warned beforehand as to the hour their children are to be medically examined at Routine Inspections, and the followintr table is instructive :—
| No. of Children Examined. | No. of Parents present | Percentage | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entrants, | Boys | 186 | 145 | 78% |
| Girls | 218 | 160 | 74% | |
| Intermediates, | Boys | 359 | 203 | 56% |
| Girls | 326 | 202 | 62% | |
| Leavers, | Boys | 298 | 88 | 30% |
| Girls | 277 | 150 | 54% |
FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION,
(a) Uncleanliness.
At Routine Medical Inspections 12G children were found
unclean, as compared with .'JOG during the year 1922.
The School Nurse at her Cleanliness Surveys found
during the year 802 children unclean.
The general standard of cleanliness has greatly improved
during the last few years, but it is a noteworthy fact that