[Report 1918] / School Medical Officer of Health, Maidenhead Borough.

  • Maidenhead (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1918
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Credit: [Report 1918] / School Medical Officer of Health, Maidenhead Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    without great inconvience and dislocation of school work. Most, if not all of the children missed, however, will be picked up in the course of the first round of inspection in 1919. On the other hand, the number of children treated at the Inspection Clinic for minor ailments, has increased very largely, in spite of the fact that, during the latter part of the year, the facilities for their treatment were very meagre, owing to the alteration, etc., of the Clinic premises. The total number of attendances registered at all the Clinics during the year amounted to 1,908, which is between three and four times the number recorded in the previous year. The Dental Clinic was opened on the 1st October, but unfortunately, owing to a number of adverse circumstances, such as the alteration of premises, difficulty of obtaining the necessary instruments and appliances, and the fact that the School Medical Service was frequently interrupted by the closure of Schools, the Clinic was temporarily abandoned after three Meetings. Much the same applies to the Eye Clinic, which was started on the 3rd June, and which was suspended after five Meetings. The number of children treated at the Dental Clinic on the occasions it was open was 35, and at the Eye Clinic 44, while at the Inspection Clinic, 238 children received treatment for minor ailments. Since the beginning of the present year, the premises and equipment for these Clinics have been in full working order, and every effort is being made to overtake the arrears of 1918. As mentioned in a previous report, a con¬ siderable number of cases requiring surgical treatment, such as removal of tonsils and adenoids, discharging ears, deformities, etc., are referred for treatment to the Ray Mead Children’s Hospital, which has continued to give much valuable help in this connection. With regard to clothing and footwear, the condition of Maidenhead School Children may be considered satisfactory on the whole, although in about a dozen cases, owing either to poverty or neglect, these articles of dress were so deficient or dilapidated, as to cause physical suffering to the child. These