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SCHOOL MEDICAL REPORT.
1940.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
As required by the Board of Education, the following inspections
were made during the year:-
(a) Routine Inspections.- of -the three code groups, Entrants,
Intermediates (viz., those of about eight years of age who have just
been, or are about to be, transferred from the' infants' to a higher
school), and a group who will be twelve years during the year. There
is also a fourth group of children of other ages who have not been
examined in one of the above groups.
This fourth group consists ofi-
1. Children who were examined a few weeks before leaving
school and the findings were entered on special forms
for the information of the Juvenile Employment Committee,
2 * Children who had not been attending school f-or some months
after the outbreak of war were examined by the Medical
Officers on their re-admission to school.
199 Entrants, 285 Intermediates, 324 third age group, and 5&1
others (1369 in all) Were examined during the year,
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(b) Special Inspections. These are special inspections made by the
School Medical Officers of the children suffering from some special
disease or disability and are generally seen at the Minor Ailment clinic.
The figure below does not include the inspections of special groups of
cases, such as cripples or children suffering from mental deficiency,
or those attending clinics other than the Minor Ailment Clinic, or school
classes in which there have been cases of certain infectious diseases.
538 special inspections were made during the year.
(c) Re-inspections:-
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512 re-inspecti.ons were made during the year.
FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The number of individual children found at Routine Inspections to
require treatment (excluding uncleanliness and Dental Diseases) were:Entranta
- 25 ; Second Age Group - 76 ; Third AgQ Group - 62 ; and
others « 101, Total - 264,
Uncleanliness.
8 cases were seen at Routine Inspection, and 18 at Special
Inspection. Legal proceedings were taken in 1 case under the School
Attendances Byelaws. During the year the nurses made 381 visits to
the schools for personal hygiene inspections, an average of l6.6 visits
per school. They made 22,223 examinations, viz., 19,190 inspections
and 2,033 re-inspections. Defects were found in 1,401 instances, and
the number of children found to be unclean was 358.
The distribution of these defective children was as follows:Brentford
Area
Lionel Road - 31; St. John's - 32; St. George's - 15;
St. Paul' 6 - 22; Ealing Road Junior - 19 ; Ealing Road Infants - 4;
Canal Boat - 21; Senior Girls' - 6; Senior Boys' - 2; Clifden Road - 2.