[Report 1949] / School Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough.
- Smethwick (Worcestershire, England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1949
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1949] / School Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Seroiuiary Srlinols. y\ttcnclance No. on Register at Average end of year lUrk Girls’ Modern 288 351 ShIreland Boys’ Modern 344 390 Shireland Girls’ Modern 329 374 Smethwick Hall Boys’ Modern. 398 494 Smethwick Hall Girls’ Modern . 284 339 Uplands Boys’ Modern. 354 406 Uplands Girls’ Alodern. 317 378 Holly Lodge Boys’ Grammar 414 435 Holly Lodge Girls’ Grammar 401 434 fames W'att Technical . 345 392 Others. Edith Sands’ Nurserv . 82 10-1 Eirs Open Air 116 137 Corbett Street S])ecial . 96 113 Total . 9.9<S6 11,261 NURSERY CLASSES. Nursery classes are held at Abbey Road, Cape, Crocketts Lane, Oldbury Road and the Uplands schools, with accommo¬ dation for 30 children in each case. FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION. UNCLEANLINESS J)urin,i^' ihe year, the school nurses made 17,289 inspections ,ot children in the schools, and of these 956 individual children were found unclean. It was not necessary to serve any notices under Sec. 54 of the Education Act, 1944. Cleansin^iis carried out New Cases Treatments ^^iven during the year : — The Firs Cape Clinic Clinic Total 291 485 776 585 621 1206 TONSILS AND ADENOIDS. The number of children found to have unhealthy tonsils and/or adenoids requiring treatment was 6o. In addition lo children were found to have other abnormal conditions of the nose or throat requiring treatment, and 352 children were found to have nose or throat defects rec[uirmg observation onE.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30091561_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
