[Report 1927] / School Medical Officer of Health, Glossop Borough.

  • Glossop (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1927
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Credit: [Report 1927] / School Medical Officer of Health, Glossop Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MINOB AILMENTS CLINIC. There are several features of tins work that I must refer to this year. Let some of our worthy burgesses pop in between 9 and 10 a.m. any morning while the schools are open at the School Clinic, here they will see our Nurses busy attending to children of all sizes and sorts and suffering from various minor ailments perhaps trivial in themselves, but by no means trivial if neglected; there will be perhaps one or two children with running ears, some with infected sores or ringworm or with goitre and nearly always a number with cuts, bruises or other casuali- zes sustained in the school playground or elsewhere. The majority of the children are really good patients and the Nurses ca'n get through the necessary treatment without much protest, but there are always a few who may give a little trouble but a little reassurance and the seeing of other children getting treated generally makes things right. Before our Clinic opened one can only conjecture what happened to children such as these; for the family doctor to attend day after day to ailments of this kind would take up a very considerable amount of tirr^ei even if the parents could pay, and I doubt if many private doctors could give the time or parents pay for the time or even take the trouble to bring them, simply because to most people the conditionsappear^ gc minor ones r • i' A running ear, for instance, is really a serious business and a septic wound may have serious results. The institution of the School Clinic has therefore become one of those institutions which no civilised urban community can well be without. One of the most striking results of treat- ment during the year was that obtained with Ottorhoca; by the cleaning of the ear daily and the putting in of Peroxide of Hydrogen followed by Iodoform Emulsion, many chronic cases have been cured, I have also found that Calomel applied locally with Cod Liver Oil given internally helps to clear up cases of ulceration of the cornea rapidly. The number of our cases of goitre has diminished; goitre is now not so common among our children, I believe this may be partly due to the measures now taken to prevent it.
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