[Report 1944] / School Medical Officer of Health, Devon County Council.

  • Devon (England). County Council.
Date:
1944
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Credit: [Report 1944] / School Medical Officer of Health, Devon County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (A) TABLE I. RETURN OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS. PERIODICAL (“ ROUTINE ”) MEDICAL INSPECTIONS. Primary Schools— Entrants Intermediate Group Third Age Group 5,220 3,402 3,189 11,811 Secondary Schools— Entrants 12 years old group 15 years old group Leavers over 15 Total Male Female Both Sexes 414 326 740 445 296 741 348 261 609 47 51 98 1,254 934 2,188 Primary and Secondary Schools— Grand Total. Both Sexes. 13,999 (B) OTHER (NON-PERIODICAL) INSPECTIONS. ' Special Inspections— Primary Schools Secondary Schools Total 16,161 641 16,802 Reinspections (Follow up)- Primary Schools Secondary Schools Total 23,197 909 24,106 NOTE.—These figures include “ inspections ” at School Clinics as well as those carried out at school. INCIDENCE OF DEFECTIVENESS ASCERTAINED AT MEDICAL INSPECTION. General Defectiveness. In Table 1(C) below is shown the percentage of children found*at periodical medical examinations to require treatment, analysed in age groups Children found to require treatment. Number of individual children found at periodical (“ Routine ”) medical examination to