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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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Table XXXI.
Higher education and central schools. State of nutrition, 1937.
| Type of school and name | Boys | Girls | Subnormal nutrition | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excellent | Normal | Subnormal | Excellent | Normal | Subnormal | |||||||||
| No. (boys and girls) | Percentage of children examined | |||||||||||||
| No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | No. | Per cent. | |||
| Municipal College | 72 | 37.1 | 113 | 58.2 | 9 | 4.6 | 50 | 31.3 | 104 | 65.0 | 6 | 3.8 | 15 | 4.2 |
| West Ham Secondary School | 130 | 36.7 | 202 | 57.1 | 22 | 6.2 | 39 | 18.5 | 165 | 78.2 | 7 | 3.2 | 29 | 5.1 |
| Plaistow Secondary School | 111 | 33.8 | 213 | 64.9 | 4 | 1.2 | 54 | 24.5 | 148 | 67.3 | 18 | 8.2 | 22 | 4.0 |
| St. Angela's | — | — | — | — | — | — | 44 | 26.7 | 111 | 67.3 | 10† | 6.1 | 10 | 6.1 |
| West Ham High School for Girls | — | — | — | — | — | — | 49 | 26.6 | 126 | 68.5 | 9 | 4.9 | 9 | 4.9 |
| Lister Institute | 19 | 34.5 | 31 | 56.4 | 5 | 9.1 | 32 | 26.9 | 75 | 63.0 | 12 | 10.1 | 17 | 9.8 |
| 332 | 35.7 | 559 | 60.0 | 40 | 4.3 | 268 | 25.3 | 729 | 68.8 | 62 | 5.9 | 102 | 5.1 | |
| The Grove: Entrants | 8 | 15.4 | 33 | 63.5 | 11 | 21.2 | 12 | 30.0 | 23 | 57.5 | 5 | 12.5 | 16 | 17.4 |
| Leavers | 13 | 32.5 | 26 | 65.0 | 1 | 2.5 | 8 | 27.6 | 20 | 69.0 | 1 | 3.4 | 2 | 2.9 |
| The Russell: Entrants | 8 | 15.4 | 34 | 65.4 | 10 | 19.2 | 8 | 17.8 | 27 | 60.0 | 10 | 22.2 | 20 | 20.6 |
| Leavers | 23 | 60.5 | 15 | 39.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 15 | 35.7 | 23 | 54.8 | 4 | 9.5 | 4 | 5.0 |
| 52 | 28.6 | 108 | 59.3 | 22 | 12.1 | 43 | 27.6 | 93 | 59.6 | 20 | 12.8 | 42 | 12.4 | |
* Details of nutrition in respect of 57 girls examined at this school are unavailable,
†This figure includes one girl whose nutritional state was classified as D (bad).