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Redbridge 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Redbridge]
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APPENDIX 17
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
MEDICAL INSPECTION AND TREATMENT
RETURN FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1965.
Part I — Medical Inspection of pupils attending maintained Primary and
Secondary Schools (including Nursery and Special Schools)
TABLE A. - PERIODIC MEDICAL INSPECTIONS
| Age groups Inspected (By year of Birth) | No. of pupils who have received a full medical examination | Physical Condition of Pupils Inspected | No. of pupils found not to warrant a medical examination | Pupils found to require treatment (excluding dental diseases and infestation with vermin) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satisfactory | Unsatisfactory | for defective vision (excluding squint) | for any other condition recorded at Part II | Total individual pupils | |||
| No | No. | ||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) |
| 1961 | |||||||
| and later | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1960 | 536 | 535 | 1 | - | 10 | 69 | 74 |
| 1959 | 1,073 | 1,061 | 12 | - | 28 | 163 | 184 |
| 1958 | 123 | 122 | 1 | - | 3 | 17 | 20 |
| 1957 | 67 | 65 | 2 | - | 5 | 14 | 19 |
| 1956 | 58 | 57 | 1 | - | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 1955 | 51 | 51 | - | - | - | 13 | 13 |
| 1954 | 178 | 175 | 3 | - | 19 | 28 | 44 |
| 1953 | 1,327 | 1,322 | 5 | - | 73 | 59 | 128 |
| 1952 | 588 | 588 | - | - | 31 | 21 | 50 |
| 1951 | 637 | 637 | - | - | 78 | 40 | 108 |
| 1950 | 213 | ||||||
| and earlier | 2,485 | 2,485 | - | - | 147 | 86 | |
| TOTAL | 7,123 | 7,098 | 25 | - | 398 | 516 | 863 |
Col. (3) total as a
percentagu of Col (2) 99%
total
Col (4) total as a
percentage of Col (2) .35%
total