[Report 1964] / School Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council.

  • Essex (England). County Council.
Date:
1964
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Credit: [Report 1964] / School Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FINDINGS AT MEDICAL INSPECTIONS (See also Appendix A) Physical Condition of School Children Of the 77,024 children inspected during 1964 only 153 (0.2%) were found to be unsatisfactory as regards their physical condition. This represents a continuation of the improvement in the general condition of the children and the following tables show the measure of improvement over the last six years. T ear Percentage of children free of defects requiring treatment Percentage of children unsatisfactory 1959 84.6 1.0 1960 84.3 0.5 1961 84.7 0.3 1962 85.6 0.2 1963 86.8 0.2 1964 . 87.6 0.2 Information relating to the number of children inspected at periodic medical inspections during 1964 as compared with 1963 and the number of those child' ren found to have defects requiring treatment are shown in the following tables :— Periodic medical inspections : number of children with defects 1963 Age Croiif^s Inspected (by year of birth) ?{iimber of children inspected AJiimber of children with defects requiring treatment Ratio of children with defects to children inspected Percentage of children defined as “unsatisfactory” 1959 and later 526 29 1 18.1 0.4 1958 12,002 1,248 1 9.6 0.3 1957 14,652 1,677 1 8.7 0.3 1956 3,136 480 1 6.5 0.3 1955 766 144 1 5.3 0.5 1954 545 118 1 4.6 0.2 1953 3,704 471 1 7.9 0.1 1952 11,571 1,503 1 7.7 0.1 1951 6,484 988 1 6.6 0.2 1950 2,737 412 1 6.6 0.3 1949 8,304 1,102 1 7.5 0.1 1948 and earlier 18,612 2,826 1 6.6 0.1