[Report 1942] / School Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds (England). City Council.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / School Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Infectious I liseasc. 6 Return of Number of Children on Roll at 31st December, 1942. Type of School. Number of Schools. Number of Departments. Number on Roll. Elementary— Council 73 17 157 -14 ,oOS Voluntary .. 7* 13,812 Higher— Maintained 1 ] 1 1 5,408 Non-maintained 5 5 j,o8i Home Office .. 2 2 207 Special— Mentally Defective 6 () 4-5 (including One Oak and Warlbeck) Physically Defective 2 1 M 6 (including Park Hill) Partiallv Sighted 1 1 53 Deaf 1 1 1 15 Other— Sanatorium I 1 Nursery (including 2 2 1 21) Sicklinghall Grange) Bewerley Park Camp 1 1 1 #3 Total 15^ 207 <56,054 I The year has been very free from infectious sickness, even the expected measles epidemic never caused anxiety so far as the school population was concerned. No schools were closed. Facilities for protecting children against diphtheria have again been offered to parents and by the time this drive is completed another 15,000 children will have been treated. Since 1935, four separate drives to protect children in school have been made with the result that the state of immunity is now very high in children over live years of age. The recent drive has not, however, proved as satisfactory as was hoped in the children under five. In some Nursery Classes the figures are very good, so that there must be many where the population at risk is high. Parents of non- immunised children under five are advised to keep them at home when cases occur and to seek protection. A record card showing the immunised state of each nursery class will shortly exist in every school where under fives are present. There P no doubt that immunisation in school is popular with parents, as the)' are not required to be present with their children and it is interesting to note the absence of any fear even in tiny children because no suggestion is ever made to them that the prick of the needle does or does not hurt. The toddlers follow each other