[Report 1926] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.
- Cumberland County Council
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1926] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![IS to the Workington Infectious Diseases Hospital on account of difficulty of isolation at home. In all, 23 swabs were taken, all of which proved negative. VII .-FOLLOWING-UP. The procedure known as “ following-up ” is of vital importance to the efficiency of the School Medical Service. To most of us it seems almost incredible that parents who are told that one or more of their children has some ph5^sical defect, do not take immediate steps to hav'e that defect remedied. It is true that a large percentage of parents when told of such defect, are willing and anxious to have it remedied. On the other hand there are parents who, owing to care¬ lessness, apathy, or indifference, will put off having any treatment, but who, when the position is explained to them, will vv'illingly co-operate with the School Medical Service, and have the necessary treatment. Again there is the small minority of parents who will have nothing done in the form of treatment unless absolutely compelled to do so. In circumscribed areas the process of following up is simple, and when, as in larger urban centres, you ha\'e all facilities for treatment, such as School Clinics, Infirmaries, Specialists of all kinds, as it were, at your finger tips, it is easy to obtain treatment for any and every case. In large sparsely populated rural areas where there are no such facilities within 20, 30, or even 40 miles, where the nearest medical man is possibly ten miles away, where there are no Specialists and not even a School Clinic, the matter is far different, and it s]>eaks well for the average parent in Cumberland that, in S})ite of all difliculties, .so many cases obtain treatment.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29132368_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
