[Report 1913] / School Health Service, Kincardine County Council.

Kincardineshire (Scotland). County Council. School Health Service.

Date:: 1913

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Credit: [Report 1913] / School Health Service, Kincardine County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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from the fact that he had recently undergone an operation, rather extensive, for the removal of enlarged glands on both sides of the neck, but at the time of the school visit his lungs showed no evidence of a lesion. Later on he was notified as a case of Con- sumption and has since died. Six other children have been found suffering from the disease, viz. :—2 boys and 4 girls all of school age. 3 of the girls (2 being sisters) have recently died. Tuberculosis of bone was found in 4 cases, 3 boys and 1 girl. The results from other parts of the country are equally inter- esting as the few given here will show. In Aberdeenshire there were 24 cases of Phthisis in 6,473 children examined. In Glasgow there were 25 cases of Phthisis in 14,869 childre11 examined. In Dundee 4 cases of Phthisis ; in Edinburgh 8 cases, and 25 suspicious cases ; in Forfarshire 3 cases; in Perthshire 6 cases of “ Tuberculosis.” A few results from England may also be given for comparison. Children Examined. Cases of Phthisis. Hertfordshire 14,452 2 Staffordshire 19,948 13 Worcestershire ... 9,870 467 Gloucestershire ... 8,915 0 Birmingham 21,493 54. Bristol ... 15,363 16 Nottingham 7,738 1 Plymouth 4,823 7 These results goto show that however much “infection” with Tuberculosis may be present in children of school age, the “disease” does not show itself in a form that can be diagnosed with certainty. Routine examination at school is necessarily con- ducted in the midst of some inevitable bustle and noise, and the quietness requisite alike for examiner and examined is difficult to secure. It must be obvious therefore that it is almost impossible to appreciate the more delicate alterations of the breath sounds,