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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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APPENDIX IV
SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE
STATISTICS RELATING TO INSPECTION AND TREATMENT OP NURSERY, SPECIAL,
PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL PUPILS, 1957.
PART I
Return of Medical Inspection
A. Periodic medical inspection:
Code Group
Number examined
Entrants
1,935
Second Age Group
2,760
Third Age Group
2,454
Total:
7,149
Additional periodic inspections
1,565
Grand Total:
8,714
B. Other inspections:
Number of special inspections 6,508
Number of relnspections 3,113
Total: 9,621
C. Pupils found to require treatment:
Age Groups
Inspected
For defective
vision (excluding
squint)
For any of the
other conditions
recorded In
Table III
Total
Individual
Pupils
Entrants
5
68
72
Second Age Group
171
79
244
Third Age Group
105
26
128
Total:
281
173
444
Additional periodic
Inspections
59
33
87
Grand Total:
340
206
531
125