Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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(8) Administrations of general anaesthetics for extractions | 2,674 | |
(9) Other operations:— | ||
Permanent teeth | 1,014 | |
Temporary teeth | 136 | |
Total | 1,150 |
TABLE VI.
UNCLEANLINESS AND VERMINOUS CONDITIONS.
(i.) Average number of visits per school made during the year by the School Nurses | 3 |
(ii.) Total number of examinations of children in the Schools by School Nurses | 31,194 |
(iii.) Number of individual children found unclean | 997 |
(iv.) Number of individual children cleansed under Section 87 (2) and (3) of the Education Act, 1921 | - |
(v.) Number of cases in which legal proceedings were taken:— | |
— | |
(b) Under School Attendance Byelaws | — |
Statement of the Number of Children notified during the Year ended
31st December, 1939, by the Local Education Authority to the Local
Mental Deficiency Authority.
Total number of children notified, 2.
Diagnosis. | Boys. | Girls. |
---|---|---|
1. (i) Children incapable of receiving benefit or further benefit from instruction in a Special School:— | ||
(a) Idiots | — | — |
— | — | |
(c) Others | — | |
(ii) Children unable to be instructed in a Special School without detriment to the interests of other children:— | ||
(a) Moral Defectives | - | - |
(6) Others | — | — |
2. Feeble-minded children notified on leaving a Special School on or before attaining the age of 16 | — | — |
3. Feeble-minded children notified under Article 3, i.e., "special circumstances" cases | ||
4. Children who in addition to being mentally defective were blind or deaf | - | - |
Grand Total | — | 2 |