[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1925
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![There were no cases of X-Ray burns. Marked erythema occurred in one hypersensitive scalp; but in this case, as in all the others, there was a good crop of new healthy hair. The incidence of ringworm of the scalp is still declining; there is now no long list of cases awaiting treatment, and fresh cases can be submitted to X-Rays pari passu with their notification. Several points with regard to ringworm have especially evidenced themselves this year and call for attention. (1) All contacts should be kept under close observation and the sufferers isolated as far as possible. The importance of exercising this precaution will be seen from the following illustration. A child of seven, with moderately severe ringworm, was successfully treated at the clinic. Two months after she had been discharged as cured she and her two elder sisters presented themselves, all suffering from the disease. She had evidently infected her sisters during the period when depilation was proceeding, and they in turn had completed the vicious circle by re-infecting her. (2) It is no use treating children of school age only, and leaving untreated those under school age. Some of the worst cases of ringworm have occurred in children under school age, and these are bound to infect their playmates and j bed companions. (3) It is unsafe to assume that if ringworm is noticed in one ! small area only that that is the only site of the disease. Some mothers have objected to having all the hair of the seal]/ I cropped and to the whole head being X-Rayed as the disease appeared |—to their eyes—to be localised. But it has astonished such mothers ' to see the real extent of the disease as demonstrated by the numerous patches revealed only when the hair was cropped close all over. Treatment carried out at the General School Clinic—Details of the work of this clinic, where cases of external eye disease, ear inflammation, skin disease, etc., are treated, will be found in Tables S 4 and S 6. The number of children who received treatment at the Clinic was 1,087 ; the total attendances numbered 10,892. Treatment carried out at the Orthopedic Clinic The first lsession of this Clinic (full details of the orthopaedic scheme were given in my last report) was held on the 7th November, 1925. The Clinic is held every Saturday morning, the surgeon (Mr. Hartley Martin) attending on the third Saturday in each month. Number of attendances made by orthopaedic surgeon 3 Number of attendances made by orthopaedic nurse 8 The attendances made by patients are classified as follows:— Under Of Over school school school New Cases— age age age Non-tuberculous 6 14 Tuberculous — 3 Total new cases . 23](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927199_0143.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
