London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Brent 1972
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brent]
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| 4. | Physchosomatic | 1% | |
| Asthma, Eczema, etc. | 4 | ||
| 5. | (17%) | ||
| (a) Stealing | 34 | ||
| (b) Non-attendance at school | 26 | ||
| 6. | (1%) | 4 | |
| 7. | (4%) | ||
| Backwardness and retardation in school work | 15 | ||
| 364 |
Table 34. Age Distribution of Referrals
| Under 5 years | 31 | 11 years | 22 |
| 5 years | 25 | 12 years | 33 |
| 6 years | 34 | 13 years | 35 |
| 7 years | 44 | 14 years | 30 |
| 8 years | 30 | 15 years | 13 |
| 9 years | 36 | Over 15 years | 2 |
| 10 years | 29 | ||
| 364 | |||
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICE Table 35. Reason for Referral to Psychologist
| Backwardness | 156 |
| Assessment for Director of Health | 56 |
| Behaviour difficulties | 86 |
| Assessment for allocation to schools | 51 |
| E.S.N, school leavers | 23 |
| 372 |
Table 36. Disposal of School Psychological Service Cases
| Recommendation for Remedial Reading Class | 46 |
| Recommendation for Special School | 47 |
| Recommendation to Director of Health | 27 |
| Advice to schools | 72 |
| Referral to Child Guidance Centre | 43 |
| Cases to be reviewed | 73 |
| Recommendation to Director of Education | 18 |
| Advice to parents | 46 |
| 372 |
Table 37. Waiting List for Psychologists at 31.12.72
| School Psychological Service | 321 |
| Cases for review | 140 |
| Cases for testing in Child Guidance Centres | 60 |
| 521 |
MEALS AND MILK
Meals
Nutritionally balanced meals are served in maintained schools on 94 different premises. The average
number of pupils provided with a meal on each school day during 1972/73 was 27,541 and 100 per day during
the school holidays.
Milk
One-third pint of milk was supplied free to children in maintained infants, non-maintained infants,
special schools, and also on health grounds, to children of junior school age in maintained schools.
A census taken in October 1972 showed that 12,867 children each received one-third pint of milk.
Of these 12,247 were attending maintained and 620 non-maintained schools. This represented 47.86% of all
children present in primary and special schools on that day. On this particular day 1,029 children of junior
age in maintained primary schools were receiving milk on health grounds.
School milk is pasteurised and the supplying dairies are supervised by the Director of Health.
Cost of Meals and Milk
The total expenditure of school meals and milk estimated for 1972/73 was £1,302.590 and the income
from payments and other services at £548,310, giving a net expenditure of £754,280.