[Report 1931] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.
- Cumberland County Council
- Date:
- 1931
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1931] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![IX.—OPEN-AIR EDUCATION. A considerable number of classes are now held in the playgrounds during favourable weather, but I can see no prospect, for some considerable time, of an open-air school materialising. Crippling Defects and Orthopaedics. The total number of cripples who had received treatment under the Cripple Scheme, other than adults, up to the end of 1981, was 1,701. More adults come under the scheme each year, and the number of cases has risen to fifty-nine on the register. The new arrangements made with the Ethel Hedley Hospital Authorities in regard to the after-care clinics (at which their surgeon attends) have proved to be satisfactory, but re-arrangements have had to be made in regard to Carlisle, as the distance to Penrith for some of the cases was too great. Therefore a clinic is held every two months, alternately, at Carlisle and Penrith. The County Council have established a clinic in a hut in the Gaol Yard, suitably eciuipjjed, in which the cripples can be seen. This has been long needed, as it was most difficult and sometimes almost ini])ossible to get a really badly crippled patient up the stairs at the County Offices, where the clinics used to be held. The new hut makes it very much easier for recumbent patients and those on crutches to be seen. The surgeon’s clinics are held every two mouths, and in 1932 will be held at the following places and times: — Clinic. Time. Jan. Mar. May. July. Sept. Nov. Whitehaven (10-30) 20 16 11 18 21 23 Mary port ... (10-30) 21 17 12 14 22 24 Carlisle ... (2-30) 21 17 12 14 22 24 Penrith C-^-0) 22 18 13 lo 23 25 (subject to iilteratioa if the \'isiting Surgeon finds tins necessary). The work of the Criftple Scheme has gone on as usual during 1981. The numiters on the register are showing a. small decrease in the number of new ctises, which points to the fact that through the help of the doctors, health visitors, and midwives, that the County has been (within the last ten](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29132411_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
