[Report 1933] / School Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council.

  • Essex County Council
Date:
1933
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    At. Grays the pressure on aceommodation necessitated the use of other premises for dental clinics and at ))reseut plans arc jirepared for the building of suitable clinic premises to deal with this large industrial population. It is hoped that these may be built in 1934. Provision has also been made for new Combined Treatment Centres at Hadleigh, Pitsea and possibly Thundersley. In the re-distribution of districts under the Local Government Act, 1929, the clinic at Shoeburyness was transferred to the Southend County Borough. At the 28 minor ailment clinics in o])eration, 17,086 individual children made 38,458 attendances during 1933. (b) Trealwent of Tonsils and Adenoids. Table IV, Group III, shows that 3,147 children received treatment for these | conditions, 1,371 of these receiving operative treatment or 570 less than the I previous year. Of these, 1,108 or 437 less than for 1932, were treated under the i Committee’s scheme. The decrease in operations under this heading tends to show that there is a i more conservative attitude in dealing with these conditions and this attitude has no doubt been influenced by the instructions i.ssued to Medical Inspectors as set out in last year’s report. It is, however, possible that in a few years the per- centage of operations may again show an increase as a result of the present con- servative attitude and better facilities that are being arranged for treatment of these defects. The present arrangements are similar to those for 1932, but negotiations are taking jdace with a view to facilities being available at the Southend General Hospital. When these mature it will be of great assistance, as the Rochford Di.strict has never been efficiently catered for in this respect. At Queen Mary’s Hos])ital, Stratford, arrangements are being made whereby the children will be retained in hospital the night after the operation ; this will be I an added advantage. Also regular clinics for these operations are being arranged j at the Dagenham Five Elms branch of the Ilford King George Hospital. (c) Tuberculosis. Close co-operation is maintained with the Tuberculosis Medical Staff. During 1933, 208 scholars (boys, 110; girls, 98), received sanatorium treat- ment :— Boys. Girls. Total. Pulmonary conditions 7 17 24 Non-pulmonary conditions 86 62 148 For observation 17 19 36 (d) Skin Diseases. i 3,091 children were treated for inij)etigo, an increase of 260 on the figure for | 1932. There was a slight decrea.se in the numbers treated for scabies (380), ring- i worm of the body (103) and ringworm of the scalp (lO;!). Dl the latter, 8 wore treated by X-rays.