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Walthamstow 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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CLOTHING, FOOTGEAR AND NUTRITION.
The Table below similarly compares with the above in schools different areas and by age and sex groups:—
| Clothing. | Footgear. | Nutrition. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satisfactory. | Unsatisfactory. | Satisfactory. | Unsatisfactory. | Excelent. | Normal. | |
| % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| A—Boys | 100 | — | 100 | — | 85 | 15 |
| B—Boys | 92 | 8 | 90 | 10 | 80 | 20 |
| A—Girls | 100 | — | 100 | — | 84 | 16 |
| B—Girls | 93 | 7 | 93 | 7 | 89 | 11 |
| Intermediate. | ||||||
| A—Boys | 100 | _ | 98 | 2 | 60 | 40 |
| B—Boys | 91 | 9 | 91 | 9 | 84 | 16 |
| A—Girls | 98 | 2 | 92 | 8 | 57 | 43 |
| B—Girls | 94 | 6 | 91 | 9 | 86 | 14 |
| Leavers. | ||||||
| A—Boys | 100 | _ | 100 | _ | 74 | 26 |
| B—Boys | 98 | 2 | 98 | 2 | 84 | 16 |
| A—Girls | 98 | 2 | 98 | 2 | 78 | 22 |
| B—Girls | 91 | 9 | 93 | 7 | 57 | 43 |
Uncleanliness.—An average of 10 visits per school was made
during the year by the School Nurses, who made a total of 105,029
examinations and who found 1,288 individual children to be unclean.
No children were cleansed under arrangements by your Committee,
nor were any legal proceedings taken.
The following Table gives comparative figures for the past five
years:—
1930. 1929. 1928. 1927. 1926.
Average number of visits
per school10 8 9 10 10
Total number of examination105,029
88,920 117,020 113,294 113,377
Number of individual
children found unclean 1,288 1,259 1,567 1,582 2.239
Percentage Uncleanliness 1.13 1.42 1.33 1.39 1.08
The decrease in the number of individual children is satisfactory,
for uncleanliness is most emphatically an index of the general
conditions of the home, and of "sanitary conscience."