[Report 1940] / School Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / School Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL INSPECTION AND TREATMENT. L)cspite the disturbances caused by tlie war, medical inspection and treatment have con¬ tinued with no appreciable curtailment. Tliis lias been possible owing to the appointment of an additional Assistant School Medical Officer sliortly before the war began, an addition which enabled the service to be largely maintained in spite of the sudden increase in the school popu¬ lation caused by evacuation. There were no changes in the arrangements for medical, dental and cleanliness inspections and Jio substantial alterati(ms in the arrangements for the various forms of treatment or tlie provision of solid meals or milk. Tlie number of officially evacuated children in the County at the commencement of the year had fallen to a fraction of the number which arrived in September, 1930, and it continued to decline until late in 1910 wlicn official evacuation was resumed. Medical Inspection of evacuees was carried out exactly on the same lines as for local children, and the facilities for treatment were made ecpially available, 284 children being treated, 258 for eye defects, 5 for ear and 20 throat defects ; also 1,213 evacuated chiildren received dental treatment. Cleanliness inspection, carried out on the pre-war standard, revealed that the evacuated children were brought practically to the same standard of cleanliness as local children. STATISTICAL TABLES. No distinction is made between children ordinarily attending schools in the area and children who have transferred to the area as a result of evacuation* SECTION 1.—Elementary Schools. 1 Table I.—A—Routine Medical Inspections. Number of Insj^ections in the prescribed groups :— 1940 1939 Entrants . , 3,600 2,777 Intermediates 3,859 3,019 Leavers . . 2,871 2,626 Total 10,330 8,422 Number of other Routine Inspections .. -B Other Inspections. 1940 1939 Number of Special Insj)ections 5,362 5,237 Number of Re-inspections 10,286 9,798 Total , 15,648 15,053