[Report 1960] / School Medical Officer of Health, Coventry.

  • Council of Coventry City Council
Date:
1960
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Credit: [Report 1960] / School Medical Officer of Health, Coventry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Orthopaedic Clinic School children with orthopaedic defects are mainly dealt with at the Paybody Clinic, Holyhead Road — the responsibility of the Regional Hospital Board. Working arrangements as between this clinic and the School Health Department are extremely happy and effective. Co-operation is of the essence and routine medical reports are forwarded to us concerning the condition of each child attending. A table showing the types of defect dealt with at the Clinic appears on page 40. Branch Clinics and Combined Centres The attendance at branch clinics associated with certain schools continued to decrease in 1960 and the time may now be approaching to dispense with these arrangements and put the freed accommoda- tion to alternative use. The new combined clinics at Broad Street (Foleshill), Jardine Crescent (Tile Hill) and Aldermoor Lane (Stoke Aldermoor) are taking the load from the more temporary clinics indicated above and are functioning to greater capacity, being used for a variety of sessions and activities. Decentralisation of staff progresses steadily as suitable peri- pheral clinics become available and a large proportion (about 44 %) of our health visitor/school nurse personnel are outstationed at these buildings. This arrangement allows of our health visitors and school nurses giving more time to their working areas rather than that they should be obliged, as a routine measure, to report daily to the central offices for administrative and related purposes. Anti-Tuberculosis Campaign This campaign which has existed in Coventry for six years continued throughout 1960. An extension to the present scheme however is contemplated for 1961, so that whole families associated with Mantoux Positive schoolchildren will first be offered x-ray and thereafter B.C.G. vaccination on a voluntary basis in all appropriate cases. This type of arrangement does already operate for the City but to a more modified extent. The degree of follow-up of the child and family will depend upon the type of reaction to Mantoux and Heaf gun testing. Following the tests a visit will be made by a health visitor to each home where there is a positive reactor and a report sent to the Director of Mass Radiography (Dr. Gordon Evans) who will arrange for the clinical investigation of the entire family. Arrangements under the B.C.G. vaccination scheme now include — in addition to those for the 13 — 14 age group — all children of 14 years and older who are still at school, students attending universities, teachers at training colleges, technical colleges and other establishments of further education. Children younger than the 12— 13 age group are included only where it is found to be expedient.