[Report 1950] / School Medical Officer of Health, Lanark County Council.

  • Lanarkshire (Scotland). County Council
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / School Medical Officer of Health, Lanark County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (c) Examinations of invalid children for admission to day special schools. The numbers were—Physically .Invalid 68 ; Men- tally Invalid 141. (d) Children employed under the Employment of Children Act. They numbered 669. The chief employments engaged in are delivery of papers 284 ; messages 158 ; milk and rolls 227. (e) Children examined under the Children and Young Persons Act. These examinations are usually made at the Remand Home, Cambuslang. All children admitted to the Remand Home are examined within 24 hours. Examination of Juvenile Delinquents numbered 157. (/) Guardianship cases includes children taken into protective custody and boarded-out children. Examinations totalled 8. Wooddean House, Bothwell, and Flemington House, Uddingston, which house children taken into care and protection by the Education Committee, are regularly- visited by one of the School Medical Officers. (g) Students in preliminary training as teachers totalled—Nil. (h) Examinations for admission to the holiday camps—1,456. (i) Examination of deaf-mute children—7. (j) Examination of blind children—2. (k) Examination of necessitous children for the supply of clothing, food, cod liver oil and extract of malt. The number granted boots was 393 ; clothing 314. • (/) Special examinations of children at the Minor Ailments Clinics—2,682. (m) Immunisation of school children—7,899. The children in the nursery schools were immunised against Diphtheria and Whooping Cough. (n) Examination of mentally defective children suspected of being ineducable. These totalled 49, of whom 10 were found to be definitely ineducable and were reported to the General Board of Control. In addition, the following examinations were carried out:— Janitors 25 ; school cleaners 37 ; certifications for Certified Institu- tions 8 ; leavers at Certified Institutions 8 ; epileptics for admission to the Colony of Mercy, Bridge of Weir, 3 ; teachers 9.
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