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West Ham 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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(13) Open Air Education. (1) Residential Open Air School for
80 Boys at Fyfield. (2) Day Open Air School, Crosby
Road, for 60 Girls. (3) Fifteen allocated beds for
Girls at the Ogilvie School of Recovery, Clacton-onSea.
(4) A Holiday Camp during the Summer Vacation
at the Seaside.
(14) Class for Stammering Children.
(15) Medical Inspection of Special Defective Children at the
two Special Schools and two Deaf Centres.
(16) Medical Inspection of Scholarship Children at the two
Higher Elementary Schools.
(17) Medical Inspection of Pupils, Bursars, and Scholars at
the two Secondary Schools.
(18) Medical Inspection of Junior Technical and Art Classes at
the Municipal College.
(19) Medical Inspection of St. Angela's High School for Girls.
(20) Medical Inspection of Pupils at the West Ham High
School for Girls.
(21) Examination of Referred Pupils from Continuation
Schools and Juvenile Unemployment Centres.
(22) Orthopaedic Treatment. Remedial Clinic in-patient and
out-patient treatment at Orthopaedic Hospitals.
(23) Work in conjunction with N.S.P.C.C., as occasion arises.
The chief additions during the year under review are (1)
the class for Stammering Children; (2) the examination of
children at the new Plaistow Secondary School.
(5) The Finding's of Medical Inspection.
(a) UNCLEANLINESS.
As previously mentioned the Borough is divided into five
areas for administrative purposes. A Special Duty Nurse is
attached to each, and engaged in Cleanliness Surveys in the
schools of the area, and the following-up of those children
found dirtv. Other findings incidental to the work, such as
skin disease, are also recorded at the same time. Bad cases
(with the parents' permission) are cleansed at the Clinics. The