[Report 1956] / School Medical Officer of Health, Oxford City.
- Oxford (England). City Council. no2012034102.
- Date:
- 1956
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1956] / School Medical Officer of Health, Oxford City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![whenever possible in the ])atients’ own homes. Donnin^^ton Clinic is used if home conditions are inadequate. Every effort is made to treat the whole family on the same day as only in this way can eradication of the infesta¬ tion be made certain. Pediculosis During the year, 28,302 personal hygiene inspections were carried out by the school nurses and out of 11,134 children inspected, 294 were found to have lice or nits in the hair. This gives an incidence of 2.41%, a good deal greater than in recent years, largely because of the more exacting standard now adopted, the presence of one nit qualifying a child for in¬ clusion in the list. Percentage of School Children Verminous 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 England & Wales . . () 5 5 4.2 4.0 Not available Oxford 2.16 1.96 1.56 1.2 0.87 2.41 DEATHS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN Six children of school age died during the year. 1. A girl aged 13, who was a mental defective with multiple deformities. She died in status epilepticus, her epileps}^ being ascribed to birth trauma. 2. A girl, aged 10, died of acute rheumatic carditis. 3. A boy, aged 8, developed tetanus and died of pneumonia. The portal of entry for the infection was provided by a small puncture in a toe caused by a nail which protruded inside his boot. 4. A girl, aged 14, died from a cerebral tumour. 5. A girl, aged 6, died from acute lymphatic leukaemia. 6. A boy, aged 7, died from a medulloblastoma. HANDICAPPED CHILDREN (a) Blind Pupils: that is to say, pupils who have no sight or whose sight is or is likely to become so defective that they require education by methods not involving the use of sight. Two children are at residential schools: one at Lickey Grange School and one at the Birmingham School for the Blind. The blind educationally sub-normal boy mentioned in last year’s report, whose placement was proving difficult, was sent to the Ellen Terry Home at Reigate last Autumn and was admitted from there, on trial, to Overley Hall, Shrewsbury in January, 1957. (b) Partially Sighted Pupils: that is to say, pupils who by reason of defective vision cannot follow the normal regime of ordinary schools](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29942834_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
