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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

Brentford and Chiswick 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]

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per school. They made 27,861 examinations, viz., 26,297
inspections and 1,564 re-inspections. Defects were found in
1,532 instances and the number of individual children found to
be unclean was 333 as against 371, 372 and 399 in 1936, 1935
and 1934 respectively.
The distribution of these defective children was as follows :
Brentford Area:—
Lionel Road 32, St. John's 27, St. George's 25,
St. Paul's 14, Ealing Road Juniors 11, Ealing Road
Infants' 13, Boat Children 23, Senior Girls' 5, Senior
Boys 2, and Clifden Road Infants' 3.
Chiswick Area:—
Hogarth Schools : Infants 26, Junior Girls 21, Senior
Girls 13, Junior Boys 5.
Belmont Schools : Infants 20, Senior Mixed 13, Junior
Mixed 15.
Strand Schools : Infants 17, Junior Mixed 13, Senior
Mixed 5.
Beverley Infants 25 and Central Girls 5.

Table: The progress made in this part of the work is shown in the following table:—

The progress made in this part of the work is shown in the following table:—

Total number of examinations made by School Nurses.Number of individual children found to be unclean.Average number of visits per school made during the year by School Nurses.
192722,913118515
192824,68297316
192926,77875516
193031,45682318
193139,03961919.6
193241,05550418
193337,50143317
193436,97639916
193538,49637215
193629,14237114
193727,86133310