[Report 1947] / School Medical Officer of Health, Carlisle City.
- Carlisle (England). City Council
- Date:
- 1947
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1947] / School Medical Officer of Health, Carlisle City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Improved Ceased attending or failed to complete Cured 1,893 10 their course of treatment ... 49 11,754 attendances were made by children to the School Clinic. In addition, 109 cases of scabies attended for advice and treatment, all of which were treated by the School Nurses. The decrease noted in the previous year con- tinues. Arrangements for the treatment of scabies and the cleansing of verminious children were, as stated in last year’s report carried out at the Cleansing Centre, No. 2 George Street. These arrangements proved quite adequate to deal with all the cases concerned. VISION. The total number of cases examined for defective eyesight was 334 (168 boys and 166 girls). 163 w^ere' examined for the first time (80' boys and 83 girls); while the remaining 171 cases (88 boys and 83 girls), were re-examinations. Squint was present in 97 cases (50 boys and 47 girls). Spectacles were found necessary and prescribed in 260 cases (129 boys and 131 girls). 07 sessions were devoted to examination of the eyes, at which 441 attendances were made, the average number attending each session being 6. The above figures compare favourably with those of the previous year, and at the end of the year the waiting ' list for cases requiring s]iecialist treatment would have been very low had it not been for the fact that the vSpecial- ist doing’ this work left Carlisle at the end of October, and alternative arrangements could not be made for the remaining two months. This difficulty has been over- come at the time of writing.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29091937_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
