[Report 1938] / School Medical Officer of Health, Southampton County Borough.

  • Southampton (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / School Medical Officer of Health, Southampton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TTo the Chairman and CM^embers of the Education Committee. !]\Ir. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, As Medical Officer to the Education Committee, I have the : honour to submit my eighth Annual Report. This document is the thirty-hrst of the series dealing with the work of medical .inspection, treatment, and physical condition of the children attending the Elementary Schools in the County Borough, and (the nineteenth report on the work carried out in the Secondary : Schools. 1 have to report the initiation of two important services during ithe year. The Asthma Clinic, which was commenced in February, :and the Child Guidance Clinic, which was opened in March. The Asthma Clinic consists of a treatment room where 5 detailed examinations and individual treatments are given, and a waiting room in which group treatment and remedial breathing iexercises are carried out. The Clinic is conducted by the Senior ! Assistant School ^Medical Officer. The cases are referred from [school inspections, and are only accepted for treatment when the (consent of the private practitioner has been obtained. Up to ithe end of the year 29 children attended and success was achieved ,in many cases. The continuance of this Clinic is dehnitely in- I. dicated, as there has not only been a great saving hnancially (compared with the cost of Residential Open Air School treatment, L but many of the mild and early cases have improved. The accommodation provided for the Child Guidance Clinic rand the duties of the staff were dealt with in my last report. ;It has not been possible, owing to the long waiting list, to accept rany cases outside the County Borough area, and with 140 cases t still to be dealt with, the chance of their inclusion is unlikely for 3some time. The intelligence tests carried out by the Psychologist I have reduced the long list of cases waiting to be seen by the Certify- |ing Officers. There has been an increase in the number of cases U found to be educationally backward, and during the year two i: additional classes for this type of child were introduced. A full : account of the work of the Clinic will be found on page 48.