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(22) Medical Inspection of Pupils at the West Ham High School
for Girls.
(23) Examination of Children attending Centres for the Deaf by
Specialist Aural Surgeon.
(24) Examination of Referred Pupils from Continuation Schools
and Juvenile Unemployment Centres.
(25) Work in conjunction with N.S.P.C.C. as occasion arises.
(5) The Findings of Medical Inspection.
(a) UNCLEANLINESS.
To each of the five areas into which the Borough has been
divided for the purpose of administration as before mentioned, is
attached a Special Duty Nurse, who concentrates on cleanliness
surveys in each school, in rota. The dirty and verminous children
are followed up at their homes until clean. A certain number,
with the parents' consent, are cleansed at the Clinics.

The percentages for head and body vermin are respectively
1.46 per cent. and .105 per cent.
Number of Home Visits 2599
Number of Children visited at School 7381
Conditions remedied during the year under Cleanliness
scheme :—
Defective Clothing 22
Unclean Heads 971
Unclean Bodies 84
Skin Diseases 19
No children were cleansed under Section 122 of the Children
Act, but 109 heads were cleansed at the School Clinics by the
Nurses.
(b) MINOR AILMENTS
Various minor affections common in school children are included
under this heading, such as Impetigo, various Skin
Diseases, Sore Eyes, Discharging Ears, and minor first aid cases.
A few of these are discovered at School Medical Inspection, but by
far the greater number are brought forward by the teachers, and
sent to the Minor Ailments Clinic.
Columns 2 and 4 of Table II. in the Appendix give the findings
among the Routines and Specials respectively.
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