[Report 1947] / School Medical Officer, Somerset County Council.

  • Somerset (England). County Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / School Medical Officer, Somerset County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I aLlL'iidaiiCL’s at the Surgeon's and Sister’s Clinics were as follows:— Attendances at Surgeon’s Clinics, 1947. Clinic. Number of Clinics held. New cases seen. I'otal Attendances. I E T P.H. All. Glastonbury 6 15 31 80 32 39 182 Radstock 4 17 30 57 16 12 115 Taunton 11 55 84 201 69 73 427 Weston-super-Mare 11 54 9G 157 43 34 330 Yeovil 11 54 88 182 26 75 371 Frome 4 19 30 62 18 14 124 Bath 3 12 19 61 14 6 100 Bridgwater 5 21 30 95 14 21 160 55 247 408 895 232 274 1,809 Note.—I = (.'onnty cases, I’re-sclioo] cases. ]*l = (Jonnty Education cases, T = Tuberculosis P.H. = (jtlier cases, i.c., children over age, P.A. and lA'I.L). cases. Attendances at Sister’s Clinics, 1947. Euring the year 878 Sister's Clinics Avere held at the various Centres, and 5,tX)8 cases attended. Of these. 1,595 were Infant Welfare, 8,845 Education, 171 Tuberculosis and 282 Public Health. In addition, 840 attendances have been made at a posture class at Taunton. Bath and Wessex Children’s Orthopaedic Hospital. Somerset cases in hospital during 1047. Type of Case. In Hospital 31.12.46. .\dniittcd in 1947. Discharf>-ed diii'in: 1947. Still in Hospital 31.12.47. Non-resp. tuberculosis (bones and joints) 15 12 14 13 Congenital deformities ... 1 9 9 1 Poliomyelitis . 17 27 16 28 Rickets 2 0 2 0 Spastic paralysis 0 5 4 1 Osteo-myelitis (other than tubercular) 7 O 7 o Other cases 14 24 23 15 Total 66 80 75 61