[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1946
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![NOTES ON TABLES (Page 7) («} Tl]e return refers to a complete calendar year. (t>) This heading relates solely to the routine medical inspection of the three ordinary age groups, i.e., to medical inspections carried out in compliance with Section 49 (2) of the Handicapped Pupils and School Health Service Regulations, 1945, which states that “ every pupil who is admitted for the first time to e, maintained school shall be inspected as soon as pos- sible after the date of his admission; every pupil attending a maintained Primary School shall be inspected during the last year of his attendance at such a school; and every pupil attending a maintained Secondary School shall be inspected during the last year of his attendance at such a school.” (c) Under this heading is recorded routine inspections, of children who do not fall under the three prescribed’ age groups, e.g., routine inspections of a fourth age-group (children who have attained the age of 8 years during the year in which the inspection takes place) or of other groups of children, as distinct from those who are individually selected on account of some suspected ill-health for “Special” Inspection. (d) A Special Inspection is a medical inspection by the School Medical Officer himself, or by one of the Medical Officers on his staff, of a child specially selected or referred for such inspection, i.e,, not inspected at a routine medical inspection'as dehned above. Such children may be selected by the Medical Officer during a visit to the School or may be referred to him by the Teachers, School Nurses, Attendance Officers, Parents, or other- wise. It is immaterial for the purpose of this heading whether the children are inspected at the School or at the Inspection Clinic or elsewhere. If a child happens to come before the School Medical Officer for special inspec- tion during a year in which it falls into one of the routine groups, its routine inspection is entered in Part A of the table on page 7 headed “ Routine Inspections ” and its special inspection in Part B. The inspection recorded under the heading of special inspections is only the first inspection of the child so referred for a particular defect. If a child who has been specially inspected for one defect is subsequently specially inspected for another defect, such subsequent inspection is recorded as a Special Inspection and not as a Re-inspection. (e) Under this heading is entered the medical inspections of children who as the rasult of a routine or special inspection come up later on for subsequent re-inspection, whether at the School or at the Inspection Clinic. The first inspection in every case is entered as a routine or special inspec- tion as the case may be. Every subsequent inspection of the same defect is entered as a re-inspection. Nothing is included under the head of special inspections or re-inspec- tions except such inspections as are defined above. Attendances for treatment by a Nurse, or for examinations by anyone other than a Doctor on the staff of the School-Health Service, are not recorded as medical inspections. If, however, at any such attendance a child is also examined by one of the Authority’s Medical Officers, this is recorded as a special inspection or re-inspection as the case may be, even if treatment is also given; but such attendance is also of course recorded as an attendance for treatment.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927400_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
