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Chief Defects Referred for Treatment.
Uncleanliness (Head), 1. Anaemia, 2.
Defective Vision, 17. Other Defects, 3.
Skin Disease, 1. Heart Disease, 3.
Disease of Nose and Throat, 3. Deformities, 8.
Dental Caries, 8.
The children found defective at the previous inspection were
re-inspected at each inspection. Sixty-six re-inspections were
made.
Treatment.
The same medical services are available for the scholars of
this school as for those in the Elementary schools. Vision is
treated mainly by the Committee's Oculist, but a few parents prefer
to obtain treatment privately. Other defects are treated almost
entirely privately in accordance with the desire of the parents.
Defective Vision.
Referred for treatment at first inspection 11
Attended Committee's Oculist 7
Treated privately 4
Obtained glasses 11
Of the remaining children found defective at the first examination,
one had left school, 28 were satisfactory, and three were
unchanged at the time of the second inspection.
Recommendations were left with the Principal, Dr. Florence
Barnett, re the following conditions:—
Vision, 17. Physical Exercises Other Conditions, 1.
Heart, 3 (flat foot, etc.), 7.
Dr. Barnett takes a very keen interest in the Medical Inspection,
and is most helpful in getting the parents to consent to the
inspection of their children, to attend during the Inspection, and
to carry out the advice given.
There is an excellent gymnasium, and special attention is
given by Miss Davidge, the Games Mistress, to children requiring
special exercises for slight deformities.
ST. ANGELA'S HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
This School is inspected annually, the inspection, as far as
this Authority is concerned, being confined to West Ham scholars.
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