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BOROUGH OF RICHMOND
(SURREY).
Report on the Medical Inspection and Treatment of
Elementary School Children for the year ended
December 31st, 1940.
To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Report on the work of the
School Medical Department during the year 1940. It is the
twentieth Annual Report as your School Medical Officer.
The Board of Education in a circular in 1939 desired that
Reports should be curtailed owing to abnormal conditions and the
same request has been made this year. Consequently the report has
been cut down but shows that a considerable amount of work was
done during the year under review.
A summary of the statistics is as follows:—
Average number of children on the registers during
1940 2,786
Average attendance at Elementary Schools during
1940 2,366
Number of Routine Medical Inspections 633
Number of attendances at Minor Ailment Clinic 2,325
Number of children obtained glasses after examination
by specialists 96
Number of children operated on for Tonsils and
Adenoid conditions 39
Number of attendances at Dental Clinic 1,772
Number of children given general anaesthetics
(Gas or Ethyl Chloride) 678