[Report 1935] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1935
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1935] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Infectious diseases.—Enquiry was made at each inspection as to the infectious diseases from which the children had suffered in the past. The information elicited is summarised in Table S 8. Particulars of all oases of the important infectious diseases are supplied to the School Attendance Superintendent, so that regulations with regard to quarantine, etc., may be enforced. In the event of several cases of diphtheria having occurred among children attending the same class, swabbing of the throats of the other children by the health nurses is carried out as a matter of routine, and biological virulence tests are made. Defects found requiring medical or dental treatment.—Of the 6,564 children inspected at routine and s])ecial inspections, 501 were found to liave defects requiring medical attention. A full statement regarding the defects found, setting out the number of defective children, is given in Table S 2. In Table S 7 the defective children are classified according to the schools attended. Particulars of the treatment provided for certain of these defects are given in the succeeding section. (B) Treatment The parents or guardians of all children found at routine exam- inations to be defective are informed immediately of the need for medical advice or treatment and are urged to consult their family doctors regarding the defects in question. They are later visited at their homes by the Health Nurses, the Assistant Medical Officers making periodical re-examinations in the schools to ascertain what action has been taken. During the past year the Health Nurses paid 888 visits to the homes of defective children in connection with “ following up ”—752 first visits and 136 re-visits; and 1,044 re-examinations of defective children were made by the Assistant IMedical Officers. Treatment of children* found, at medical inspections held during 1935, to be suffering from defects which required medical attention.— As has been stated above, 501 out of 6,564 children examined at routine and special inspections in elementary schools during 1935 were found to be suffering from defects requiring medical attention. 231 children received treatment before the end of the year for defects found during this and the preceding year. Details of the various types of ailment treated will be found in Table S 4. Treatment at the Eye Clinic.—Children who were found by the Assistant Medical Officers to require spectacles, and whose parents were not in a position to secure the necessary attention privately, were seen at the Eye Clinic by Dr. Williams. The large number of re-examinations carried out during the year is worthy of note. A certain proportion of these cases attended on the instructions of Dr. Williams given at the Eye Clinic or of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927291_0102.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
