[Report 1953] / School Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1953
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Credit: [Report 1953] / School Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Since the coming into operation in July, 1948, of the National Health Service Act, when every school child became entitled to receive free treatment from a private doctor, there has been an understandable decline in the attendances at the Minor Ailment Clinics. Clinic Children referred at S.M.I. Other Children Examinations by Medical Officers Attendances Results of Treatment Remedied Improved Unaltered *Bishop’s Castle .. — 5 6 6 — — 5 Bridgnorth 5 380 334 1,581 341 3 41 *Church Stretton — 7 7 7 .— — 7 Ironbridge 18 248 398 909 263 3 —■ Oswestry Shrewsbury: 21 284 497 1,199 128 54 123 Monkmoor .. 16 818 --- 1,493 822 10 2 Murivance 1 452 315 1,073 338 8 107 White House .. 11 479 455 2,425 423 48 19 Wellington 15 320 340 1,610 334 1 —• Total 87 2,993 2,352 10,303 2,649 127 304 *He]d in conjunction with afternoon Infant Welfare Session. Ascertainment and Treatment of Handicapped Pupils.—During 1953 a total of 536 pupils was examined under the provisions of the Handicapped Pupils and School Health Service Regulations, 1953, issued by the Minister of Education under Section 33 of the Education Act, 1944, and a summary of the findings of the Medical Officers and also of the recommendations made to the Local Education Authority are given below:— Handicapped Pupils Findings of School Medical Officers ^ Category Pupils Specially Ex¬ amined Not Handi¬ capped Special Educational Treatment Recommended Reported to Mental Deficiency Authority In Ordinary School In Special School Home Tuition Unsuitable for special In- educational educable treatment Super¬ vision on leaving school f Blind 2 _ - 2 - _ _ Partially Sighted .. 1 — — 1 — — — — Deaf 1 — — 1 — - - — Partially Deaf 3 — — 3 — — — — Delicate .. 37 — — 32 5 —■ — — Educationally Sub-Normal 344 56 126 99 — 27 — 36 Epileptic .. — — — — — — — — * Maladjusted 136 120 — 16 —■ — — — Physically Handicapped 12 — 7 5 — — — Total for 1953 .. 536 176 126 161 10 27 — 36 ! Total for 1952 .. 566 191 151 143 14 25 — 42 ^Examined and treated by Visiting Psychiatrist.