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ing from malnutrition to such an extent as to require treatment.
This gives an incidence of just over 3 per 1,000. The incidence
amongst school children for the whole of England and Wales
for the year 1929 amounted to 9.5 per 1,000. It is thus evident
that the position in Wimbledon as compared with the rest of the
country is very favourable.
In addition to the six children requiring treatment, there
were 35 children whose nutrition could not be regarded as satisfactory.
They did not require treatment but required to be kept
under observation.
At the special examinations at the Health Centre 12 children
were found to be suffering from malnutrition requiring treatment
and 2 requiring observation.
The standard of clothing and footgear was also very
satisfactory.
6. INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The means adopted to prevent the spread of infectious disease
amongst school children are:—
(a) Exclusion of children actually suffering from infectious
diseases or coming from infected houses.
The Memorandum of the Board on Closure of and Exclusion
from School is closely followed in this particular.
((>) Closure of Schools.
(c) Disinfection of Schools.
(a) In the case of notifiable diseases occurring in houses
where there are children attending school, notices on special
exclusion forms are sent out from the Public Health Department
to the Head Teachers and Chief Attendance Officer. Children
from such infected houses are excluded until the necessary
re-admission forms have been issued.
The notifiable infectious diseases occurring amongst school
children are dealt with in the report of the Medical Officer of
Health.
(b) School closure is rarely resorted to to-day for the purpose
of controlling infectious diseases. During 1930 it was not
found necessary to close any of the schools in the district for this
purpose.
(c) The routine disinfection of each school was carried out by
the Sanitary Staff during the mid-summer holiday. Disinfection
of classrooms was also carried out periodically as the necessity
arose during the course of the year.
(d) Valuable information is obtained from the weekly
returns of absences due to infectious diseases furnished by the
Head Teachers. The numbers of cases of non-notifiable diseases
reported from the schools during 1930 were as follows:—
73