[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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![SKIN DISEASES. 1 hirty-six children found to l)e snfferiity fr(jin skin diseases were referred for treatment. Comparison witli lindings of the previous four years is as follows : — 1949 1948 l'J47 194f) 1943 Numher ins])ected 3,393 3,636 3,398 4,366 3,364 Ringworm (all forms) — — — — 1 Scabies 7 () 12 48 29 lm[)etigo — 1 1 3 6 Other conditicms 29 23 33 40 23 36 30 48 93 61 I ’ercentage 1.0 0.8 1.4 2.1 1.7 DEEECTIVE VISION, INCECDINC SOUENT. The mimher (jf children found to show defective vision was 207, of whom 127 were referred for refraction. In addition, 41 cases of squint were referred for treatment. The ])ercentage of defects under this heading- was 6.9 EAR DISEASES AND HEARING. The numher of children found with defects under this heading was 149 or 4.19r of the t(Jtal numljer inspected. Of these 36 .were referred for treatment. DENTAL DEEECTS. All school children are ikwv suhmitted to ])eriodic examina¬ tion by the dental officers, and details (jf hndings and treatm:int provided are given in the appendix to this Report, Table IW At the periodic examinations in school, teeth are inspected by the medical officers, hut onlv the most urgent cases are referred to the dentists for treatment, thus to cjuote hgures. puriiorting to represent the finding of the doctors would be misleading. INFECTIOUS DISEASES. riiere was only (me case of diphtheria among tlu“ school population during the year, comjiared with three last year, live m 1947, and 11 m 1946. There were no fatal cases during the last three x'ears, hut there were two deaths in 194(). During the }ear, 939 school children were immunised against diphtheria and 718 received secondar\' or I'einforcing injections. It was estimated on 31st December, 1949' that ap'proximatelx 9()7f of the school population was ])rotected. In addition, 1,029 pre-school children were jirotected at the various Weltarc C entres, the Nurseiw Scho.ol, and hx' private me lical pract^tioner^ dui'ing the year.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30091561_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
