[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough.

  • Hastings (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. of children examined ? E.S.N. during 1952 .. .. 34 No. of children ascertained as E.S.N. during 1952 .. .. 24 No. of children re-tested .. .. .. .. .. 3 No. of Intelligence tests carried out by School Medical Officer for Juvenile Courts . . .. .. .. .. 22 No. of children reported to Local Authority: Sec. 57(3) .. 1 Sec. 57(5) .. 1 Residential Special Education. Children, relatively few in number, who require special treatment and education which cannot be provided by the Authority’s special schools are sent by arrangement to other educational institutions outside the Borough: as examples:— (a) Hospital residential institutions such as— Heritage Craft Schools and Hospital, Chailey, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, Lord Mayor Treloar’s Hospital, Alton. (b) Special residential schools such as Ovingdean Hall for partially deaf, Margate for deaf, Mulberry House for maladjusted, etc. It continues to be a most difficult matter to obtain places in any residential institution, particularly for the deaf, blind and maladjusted, and also for educationally subnormal children. The total number of children in various institutions at the end of 1952 was: blind, 2; deaf, 5; asthma, 1; cripples, 1; surgical tuberculosis, 1; maladjusted, 2; coeliac disease, 1; a total in all of 13 children. Hospital Treatment. Special arrangements for the attendance of children suffering from diabetes continued to be made under the National Health Service at the special clinic at the Royal East Sussex Hospital. Children suffering from orthopaedic conditions and tuberculosis are dealt with in their appropriate clinics at the same Hospital. Contact is maintained with these hospital clinics, especially the chest clinic and orthopaedic clinic, both directly and through the health visitors. The school nurse follows up orthopaedic cases and attends the hospital orthopaedic clinic, thus being able to follow up necessary treatments in home or school and to pursue defaulters.
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