[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brent] page 70

Brent 1965

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MEDICAL INSPECTION AND TREATMENT
Number of pupils on registers of maintained primary, secondary, special and nursery schools 35,669
Part I.—Medical Inspection of Pupils attending Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools
(including Nursery and Special Schools)

Table: Table A Periodic Medical Inspections

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Table A Periodic Medical Inspections

Age Groups inspected (by year of birth)	No. of Pupils who have received a full medical examination	Physical Condition of Pupils Inspected		Pupils found to require treatment (excluding dental diseases and infestation with vermin)
		Physical Condition of Pupils Inspected		for defective vision (excluding squint)	for any other condition recorded at Part II	Total individual pupils
		Satisfactory	Unsatisfactory
		No.	No.
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)
1961 and later	513	513	-	22	38	51
1960	2,345	2,320	25	82	159	218
1959	1,043	1,032	11	37	94	117
1958	326	322	4	16	36	50
1957	1,446	1,426	20	84	106	178
1956	407	406	1	41	33	72
1955	850	834	16	28	60	81
1954	1,349	1,335	14	87	107	183
1953	595	592	3	32	59	85
1952	153	152	1	10	28	38
1951	691	682	9	43	44	86
1950 and earlier	2,336	2,321	15	132	225	333
Total	12,054	11,935	119	614	989	1,492
Col. (4) total as a percentage of Col. (2) total			99.01%	to two places of decimals.
Col. (4) total as a percentage of Col. (2) total			0.99%

Table: Table B. Other InspectionsNotes:—A special inspection is one that is carried out at the special request of a parent, doctor, nurse, teacher or other person.A re-inspection is an inspection arising out of one of the periodic medical inspections or out of a special inspection.

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Table B. Other Inspections

Notes:—A special inspection is one that is carried out at the special request of a parent, doctor, nurse, teacher or other person.

A re-inspection is an inspection arising out of one of the periodic medical inspections or out of a special inspection.

Number of Special Inspections	3,972
Number of Re-Inspections	2,543
Total	6,515

Table: Table C. Infestation with VerminNotes:—All cases of infestation, however slight, should be included in Table C. The numbers recorded at (b), (c) and (d) should relate to individual pupils, and not to instances of infestation.

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Table C. Infestation with Vermin

Notes:—All cases of infestation, however slight, should be included in Table C. The numbers recorded at (b), (c) and (d) should relate to individual pupils, and not to instances of infestation.

(a) Total number of individual examinations of pupils in schools by school nurses or other authorised persons	18,263
(b) Total number of individual pupils found to be infested	256
(c) Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing notices were issued (Section 54) (2) (Education Act. 1944)	76
(d) Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing orders were issued (Section 54) (3) (Education Act, 1944)	Nil

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Table: Table A Periodic Medical Inspections

Table: Table B. Other InspectionsNotes:—A special inspection is one that is carried out at the special request of a parent, doctor, nurse, teacher or other person.A re-inspection is an inspection arising out of one of the periodic medical inspections or out of a special inspection.

Table: Table C. Infestation with VerminNotes:—All cases of infestation, however slight, should be included in Table C. The numbers recorded at (b), (c) and (d) should relate to individual pupils, and not to instances of infestation.