[Report 1946] / School Medical Officer of Health, Lanark County Council.

  • Lanarkshire (Scotland). County Council
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / School Medical Officer of Health, Lanark County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [e) Children examined under the Children and Young Persons Act. Juvenile delinquents numbered 164, Borstal cases 5. (/) Examination of teachers 7 ; janitors 57 ; school cleaners 25 ; attendance officers 3 ; nurses 5 ; dental attendants 2 ; certification for certified institutions 10 ; assistant youth organisers 2 ; laboratory steward 1 ; epileptics for admission to Bridge of Weir 2 ; Ineducable children reported to General Board of Control 39; a total of 153. {g) Guardianship cases includes children taken into protective custody and boarded-out children. They numbered no. In addition to these, Wooddean House, Bothwell, and Fleming- ton House, Uddingston, which house children taken into protection by the Education Committee, are regiilarly visited by one of the School Medical Officers. [h) Survey of Random Sample ” children in connection with the mental survey of 9 years old children in Scotland. They totalled 881. (f) Students in preliminary training for the teaching profession, 5 in number. (J) Examination of necessitous children for the supply of clothing, boots, food and tonic food in the form of cod liver oil and extract of malt. The number granted boots was 3,284 ; clothing 153 ; and tonic food 22. [k] Children for admission to the holiday camps. These are examined twice. The number of examinations w^as 1,582. (l) Examination of deaf and deaf-mute children—4. (w) Examination of blind children and blind adults for technical training—2. («) Immunisation of school children—owing to staffing diffi¬ culties this w^as less than in previous 3'^ears—174. A systematic effort will be made in the ensuing year.
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