[Report 1936] / School Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough.
- Smethwick (Worcestershire, England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1936
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1936] / School Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(ij CRIPPLING DEFECTS. The Education Committee have no orthopaedic scheme of their own, hut the Smethwick Cripples’ Union, a voluntary body, administers a very complete scheme and wmrks in the closest liarmony wdth this department. Cases of crippling defects are referred by the school medical officer to the Union, who supply all necessary treatment. Mr. F. Wilson-Stuart is the surgeon to the Lhiion and attends on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. The staff includes two full-time orthopaedic nurses, two part-time masseuses, and a full-time secretary, and all grades of defect are dealt with. Treatment is provided in all cases, either locally or in Birmingham, and children requiring in-patient treatment are sent to the “ Woodlands ” Northffeld or to “ The Forelands,” Bromsgrove. Some cases of surgical tuberculosis are treated at the Children’s Hospital, Birmingham. During the year 9 children of school age received in-patient treatment at one or other of these institutions, and a large number of children of school age are included in those attending the clinic of the Smethwick Cripples’ Union each morning for massage. PHYSICAL TRAINING. This IS included in the school curriculum and conducted in accordance with instructions, etc., contained in the Board of Ifducation official puhlications re Physical Exercises, copies of which are in possession of each member of the teaching staff*. PROVISION OF MEALS Meals have been provided throughout the r’ear at the undermentioned Centres : — Brasshouse Lane School . . 22,692 Church Fane Centre . . 32,149 Bearwood Road School . . 10,716 Slough Fane School . . 4,329 Victoria Special School . . 2,224 72,110 Tliere are fewer clnldren being fed tlian has l)een the case for a c(uisideraide time. The total meals ])rovided during the past seven years are given hereunder : — 1930 48,794 meals 1931 96,612 meals 1932 201,194 meals 1933 210,716 meals 1934 135,598 meals 1935 81,458 meals 1936 72,110 meals](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30091536_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
