[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.

  • Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL INSPECTION AND TREATMENT The statistical tables required by the ^liiiistry ot J^lducatiou are shown at the end of this rejjort. Periodic IMedical Inspections were carried out in all schools of the three age groups specified in paragraph 49 (2) of the Handicapped Pupils and School Health Service Regidations, 1945, nainely: — (a) every pupil admitted for the first time to a maintained school as soon as possible after the date of his admission. (b) every pupil attending a maintained Primary School during the last year of his attendance at such a school. (c) every pupil attending a maintained Secoiidary School during the last year of his attendance at such a school. In addition, periodic Medical Inspections vere carried out of a fourth age group (children who were between eight and nine years of age on the 31st ]\Iarch, 1948). During the year the number of periodic JMedical Inspections ot pupils attending Maintained Schools totalled 7,271 (Not shown in Table I of the Ministry of Education Medical Inspection Returns illustrated at the back of this report, are 185 x^upils attending a Non- IMaintained School, viz., the Birkenhead School, who were inspected under the provisions of Section 78 of the Education Act, 1944). The total of 5,741 Special Inspections carried out during 1948 by the School Health Service is made up from several sources, and include Pre-Dental Heart Inspections, examination of Juvenile Court cases under the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, School Campers, Speech Defects, certificates of fitness to deliver newspapers etc., certificates of freedom from infection, inspections at Minor Ailments Clinics and children seen as “Specials’* during the course of periodic visits to the Schools. Re-examinations of children who as the result of a periodic or special inspection come up later on for subsequent re-inspection totalled 4708. 3673 of these were performed aT the school and 1035 -at the Jlinor Ailments Clinics. CO-OPERATION OF PARENTS Parents attended at the examination of 5068 (69.70%) of the 7271 children dealt with at the periodic inspections: — Code Group First Age Second Age Third Age Parents Present 93.12% 69.84% 21.84% Fourth Age