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inspections to take place in those schools. The only exception
is St. Mary's R.C. Mixed and Infants School at Russell
Road. As this school is quite near the Pelham Road Health
Centre, the medical inspection of these scholars is carried out
there. The Head Teacher's room is utilised for this purpose
in twelve of the schools, staff rooms in two others, and in
the two remaining schools a classroom is available.
5. FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
In Table IIa (which is given in the Appendix) a list of
all defects found during medical inspection, whether routine
or non-routine, is shown. Table Ic gives the number of
individual children found at the routine medical inspections
to require treatment, excluding defects of nutrition, uncleanliness
and dental diseases.
There were 1,812 children examined at the routine
medical inspections. Two hundred and thirty-six, or
13.02% were found to be suffering from defects (excluding
defects of nutrition, uncleanliness and dental diseases) requiring
treatment. The figures relating to the number of
defects found in the various age groups are given in Table
Ic in the Appendix.
Among the 2,728 children specially examined there were
found 1,621 defects requiring treatment and one hundred and
forty-nine requiring to be kept under observation.
Although the character of the defects ascertained varies
somewhat from year to year, on the whole, the health of the
school children in Wimbledon showed no apparent change
as compared with 1936.
(a) Malnutrition. Malnutrition again received special
attention during 1937.
Table IIb gives a classification of the nutrition of those
inspected in the routine age groups. Of the 1,812 children
examined as routines the nutrition was found to be bad in
four cases, or 2.20 per thousand of those inspected. The
nutrition was slightly subnormal in eighty-three children, or
45.80 per thousand of those examined as routines.
These figures are based on the lines laid down in Administrative
Memorandum No. 124 dated 31st December, 1934,
and correspond very closely to those obtained during the
previous year.