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 Richmond]
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SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE
POPULATION.
The population of Richmond upon Thames at mid-1969 was 176,600 (1968—
177,130) of which 20,736 (1968—20,622) were school children in maintained schools.
Table I.
No. of schools | Number on Registers | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Boys | Girls | Total | ||
Secondary Grammar | 5 | 1,606 | 1,597 | 3,203 |
Secondary Modern | 12 | 2,544 | 2,299 | 4,843 |
Primary | 53 | 6,327 | 6,054 | 12,381 |
70 | 10,477 | 9,950 | 20,427 | |
Nursery | 2 | 42 | 58 | 100 |
Day Special Schools for E.S.N, children | 2 | 91 | 46 | 137 |
Day Special School for Maladjusted children: | ||||
Junior | 1 | 35 | 15 | 50 |
Infant | 1 | 11 | 1 | 12 |
Autistic Unit | 1 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
7 | 186 | 123 | 309 | |
Total | 77 | 10,663 | 10,073 | 20,736 |
An increase of 114 pupils compared with the number in 1968 should be noted.
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