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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
West Ham 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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The following table gives the names of these schools and the premises which are used for inspection.
| School. | Premises used for medical inspection |
|---|---|
| Clarkson Street | Public Hall, Canning Town |
| St. Margaret's | Public Hall, Canning Town |
| Holy Trinity | Public Hall, Canning Town |
| St. Luke's | The Boyd Institute, Tidal Basin |
| St. Francis' | Wesleyan Hall, The Grove, Stratford |
| St. Paul's | Mechanics' Institute (L.N.E.R.) |
| Colegrave Road | Mechanics' Institute (L.N.E.R.) |
| Rosetta Junior | Bancroft Hall, Custom House |
| St. James' | Hanford Memorial Hall, Forest Lane |
| St. Antony's | St. Antony's Hall, Forest Gate |
In addition to the routine medical examination of children
at schools, "special" examinations are carried out where
necessary. These "specials" may be classified as follows:-
(a) children who do not fall within the three code agegroups,
but who are examined at the school at the request of the
head teacher during a routine visit;
(b) children who are sent by head teachers to the school
clinics for the treatment of minor ailments;
(c) healthy children—classified as "other routines"—who
are examined specially to decide their fitness for sport, for camp
life, for school journeys; children may also be examined to decide
their fitness for certain types of employment;
(d) other children who are referred in any way to the School
Medical Officer for examination, advice, or treatment;
(e) children who are examined for the purpose of the compilation
of a census of exceptional children (see Table III. of
Appendix to this section).
During 1937 the number of visits to schools for the purpose
of routine inspection of children—each completed inspection of the
whole of the children in the code age-groups in the school counting
as one visit—was 97*. The number of children examined as
"routines" and "other routines" was 14,340, of whom 7,208 were
boys and 7,132 girls. This figure represents an increase of 615
over the corresponding figure for the previous year. The details
of these figures are given in Table III.
The figures given in sections V to XVI of this report relate to elementary
schools only.
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