[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough.
- Darlington (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1929
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![for the remedy of existing defeets in the child, and also for the ])revention of future ill-health by attention to what a})pear very trifling common-place weaknesses. During 1929, at the medical inspection of infants, parents were present in 74 per cent, of the eases, but with older children this percentage was 45 per cent. At the routine medical inspection of 3,200 elementary school children 1,794 parents attended, quite a satisfactory proportion. CO-CPERATJON OF SCHOOL ATTElVOAP^CE OFFICERS. (a) IVIedical Inspection generally.—In the course of visitation by the Attendance Officers to homes of children where excuses are ])ut forward of illness as the cause of absence from school, and if the cireumstances warrant it, the parents are requested to present the children at the School Clinic. (b) Following up of Children on the Clinic Lists.—The Officers receive daily lists of children who have attended tlie Clinic, and reports as to their fitness, or otherwise, to attend school. In the case of those unfit the date of the next visit to the Clinic is given on the lists for informa- tion. Further, a daily list is also furnished of children, who should have attended the Clinic but have failed to do so. The parents of the latter are promptly visited and warned as to the consequences of failure to attend as ordered. EmPLOYIVIENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS. The advice of the School IMedical Officers is available for the Employment Officer, and at the final examination of a school child an effort is made to call the attention of the parents to any ]:)hysical condition which should influence them in the choice of an occupation for the child. The chief em})loyment for boys in this area is in the Building, Distributive and Engineering Trades. Many boys seeking apprenticeships are compelled to find interim employment as errand boys and labourers on leaving school. Girls are employed in Domestic Service, Wool Spinning, Shops, Offices and in the Tailoring and Dressmaking Trades.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29149113_0122.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
