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No. 137. By this procedure co-operation between the School Medical
Service and Juvenile Employment and Advisory Committee was rendered
more complete.
FINDINGS AND TREATMENT OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Nutrition.—As the result of a report made by the Medical Officer to
the Education Committee in June, 1937, a Nutrition Clinic was set up
at which all children of subnormal nutrition and those already in receipt
of school meals and/or milk, might be referred. The object of the clinic
in addition to selection of children for meals has been:—
(a) To medically re-examine each child (on the basis laid down
in the Board's Administrative Memorandum 124) at specified
intervals, for example, once per term; and to record the
findings, re-classify nutritional standard and re-authorise
supply of meals or milk as occasion demands.
(b) To offer advice to parents as to suitable diet, importance of
sleep and fresh air.
(c) To estimate the fitness of such children for physical training
proportionate to the physical capacity of the individual
child (Board of Education Circular 1445).
(d) To recommend, as required, admission of suitable cases to
the Committee's Residential Open Air School, Hayling
Island, Hants.
Children found at the routine medical inspections to be suffering
from malnutrition numbered 564, or 10 per cent. of the children inspected.
For classification of the nutrition of children inspected during the year in
the routine age-groups, see Table B, page 47.
Children specially examined in school by the medical officers and
found to be undernourished numbered 181.
Of the 5,240 children who attended the Minor Ailments clinics, 256,
or 4.9 per cent., were found to be suffering from varying degrees of
malnutrition.