[Report 1924] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.

  • Cumberland County Council
Date:
1924
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Credit: [Report 1924] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL. To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee. Mr. Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen, I have much pleasure in presenting my Seventeenth Annual Report on the Medical Inspection of School Children, that for the year ended 31st December, 1924. 1—STAFF. 1. The staff of the School Medical Service has during the year remained the same as during the past two years ; but in spite ot this, I have no doubt that any one who reads this report and who cares to study the figures and facts herein given, will realize that an enormous amount of good and valuable work has been accomplished, and this in spite of the reduced staff made necessary for economic reasons in 1921. 2. Depression in trade, with as a consequence, un- employment, and consequently depleted funds of a large section of the population with which we have to deal, have in the first place led to more ailments among the child population, and in the second place to lessened ability of the parents to obtain medical advice and help from private sources, consequently the time of the Medical Staff has been very fully occupied, and often great difficulties have been encountered in order to secure early treatment. 3. I have to record, and I do so with great pleasure and satisfaction, the Whole-hearted loyalty and support which I have received from each and every member of my staff— medical as well as nursing. Every member has given his or her very best in the interests of the child population, and that best I am satisfied is of a very high order. Each member too has unsparingly and willingly given many hours of overtime, not only to attending to the medical wants of the children, but also in doing a large amount of clerical work in off time and in the evenings. I gladly take this opportunity of putting on record my high appreciation of their devotion to their work, and of my personal satisfaction in having such a keen, conscientious and zealous staff to work with. 4. I do not hesitate to say that the last few years of economic stress through which we have passed with the imposed necessity of concentrating on perfecting what we had got has had its compensating effect in better organisation and greater efficiency. .
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