London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Richmond upon Thames 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]
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Table IV.— Group 6.
Uncleanliness and Verminous Conditions.
| Average number of visits per school made daring the year by the School Nurses . . | 6 |
| Total number of examinations of children in the Schools by School Nurses | 8,281 |
| Number of individual children found unclean | 311 |
| Number of children cleansed under arrangements made by the Local Education Authority | Nil |
| Number of cases in which legal proceeding* were taken | |
| , (a) Under the Education Aot, 1921. | 3 |
| (6) CJnder School Attendance Byelaws | 4 |