London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Redbridge 1966
[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 |