Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Redbridge]
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APPENDIX 17 (continued)
TABLE B. - OTHER INSPECTIONS
NOTES: A special inspection is one that is carried out at the special request
of a parent, doctor, nurse, teacher or other person.
A re-inspection is an inspection arising out of one of the periodic medical inspections or out of a special inspection.
Number of Special Inspections | 560 |
Number of Re-inspections | 777 |
Total | 1,337 |
Part III — Treatment of Pupils attending maintained Primary and Secondary
Schools (including Nursery and Special Schools)
NOTES: (i) Cases treated or under treatment during the year by members of
the Authority's own staff;
(ii) cases treated or under treatment during the year in the Authority s
school clinics under National Health Service arrangements with
the Regional Hospital Board; and
(iii) cases known to the Authority to have been treated or under
treatment elsewhere during the year.
TABLE C. - INFESTATION WITH VERMIN All cases of infestation, however slight, are recorded.
This return relates to individual pupils and not to instances of infestation.
(i) Total number of pupils examined in the schools by school nurses or other authorised persons | 14,241 |
(ii) Total number of individual pupils found to be infested | 79 |
(iii) Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing notices were issued (Section 54(2), Education Act, 1944) | _ |
(iv) Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing orders were issued (Section 54(3), Education Act, 1944) | - |
(v) Number of individual pupils disinfested:— | |
By Local Authority | 32 |
By parents | 47 |