[Report 1925] / School Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council.

  • Essex (England). County Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / School Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8. Medical Treatment. Medical Inspectors are instructed to always refer parents of children who need' treatment in the first instance to their usual medical attendant, and when such] treatment is not forthcoming an endeavour is made to get efficient treatment under the County schemes at clinics or hospitals. {a) Minor Ailment Clinics. These are giving the same amount of satisfaction and good results as in previous years, are increasingly attended by children for the simple ailments which are not usually provided for by the private practitioner, and are most helpful to the teachers in receiving assurance as to the child’s fitness to attend school whilst treatment is being carried out. The total number of clinics under the County scheme is the same as for last year, viz., i6. Arrangements have been made and sanctioned for treatment of children of the Boy’s Garden City, Dr. Barnardo’s Home, at the Hospital in the grounds to be recognized as a School Clinic, thereby solving a question of attendance. A small treatment centre has been established at Maldon pending the building of a complete Combined Treatment Centre. The Romford Clinic has been improved, in that it is now held in more commodious quarters in a Combined Treatment Centre. It is hoped in the near future to establish clinics at Witham, Dagenham, Brentwood and Waltham Abbey, and to improve facilities in Braintree by removal to more suitable quarters. OoJ’-V The total number of attendances at clinics duiing 1925 was ^,689. The number of individual children was 7,849. List of clinics with particulars as to position and session held :— Clinic. 1. Clacton 2. Grays ... 3. Romford 4. Woodford 5. Chingford 6. Wivenhoe 'I'injes of Sessions. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday mornings Monday, Wednesday & Friday mornings .. Monday, Wednesday & Friday mornings .. Wednesday afternoons .. Thursday mornings Where held. Skelmersdale Road, Clacton. Grays Quarry Hill Council School. 29, Eastern Road, Romford The Shrubbery, South Woodford. South Chingford Council School. Wivenhoe Council