[Report 1954] / School Medical Officer of Health, Glamorgan County Council.
- Glamorgan (Wales). County Council. nb2014013905.
- Date:
- 1954
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1954] / School Medical Officer of Health, Glamorgan County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![3. Cleanliness. The following table shows the incidence of uncleanliness in school children :— Nits i n hair Skin dirty or verminous Boys Girls Boys Girls 1908-1911 % 9-3 0/ /o 38-9 0/ /o 4*3 % 41 1918-1921 0-7 17-2 0-9 0-3 1935-1938 0-5 2-6 0-6 0-3 1945-1948 0-9 5-6 0-6 0-3 1949 1-0 5-0 0-4 0-2 1950 0-8 4-2 0-2 0-1 1951 0-8 3-5 0-2 0-1 1952 0-7 2-8 0-2 0.1 1953 0-8 3-7 0-2 0-1 1954 0-8 3-4 0-2 0-1 Table III A and B (pages 43 and 44) show the results of the examinations by the school nurses, is interesting to note that on re-examination of cases previously found infested, only 33 per cent of boys wi found to be unclean compared with 60 per cent of the girls. This is undoubtedly due to the greater difficu of dealing with the long hair of the girls. It must be emphasised that constant care, on the part of the nurses, in dealing with persistent offend is the only way of effecting a marked reduction in the incidence of infestation. 4. Handicapped Pupils. Medical Factors and Educational Progress. ; During the last decade, in particular, legislative measures in the field of education have aimed providing every child with educational facilities which will enable him to make the maximum scholaj progress of which he is capable. i It is abundantly clear that some children in the past have had such severe physical disabilities t! their education has been virtually ignored. The Education Act, 1944, with the subsequent Handicap] Pupils and School Health Service Regulations, did much to bring the problem to the fore and there isj doubt that this legislation was largely responsible for the increasing number of special schools for handicap] children. It is of interest, therefore, to compare the statistics in relation to the main groups of handicap] pupils for 1946 and 1954 in the County of Glamorgan :— Handicapped children in Special Schools 1946 1954 Educationally sub-normal 66 196 Blind and partially sighted 28 54 Deaf and partially deaf 44 79 Total 138 329 In addition to the above, home tuition, which was not commenced until March, 1948, was t a])proved for six children. At the end of 1954, 40 children were benefiting from home tuition arrangeme;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28844853_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
