[Report 1952] / School Medical Officer of Health, Worcestershire / County of Worcester County Council.

  • Worcestershire (England). County Council.
Date:
1952
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Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1952] / School Medical Officer of Health, Worcestershire / County of Worcester County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Visual Defects and External Eye Disease Number of cases dealt with by the Authority otherwise External and other, excluding errors of refraction and squint . . . . 271 34 Errors of refraction (including squint) . . 2614 335 Total . . 2885 369 Number of pupils for whom spectacles were (a) Prescribed . . . . . . . . 1858 177 (b) Obtained . . . . . . . . 1827 169 Children with defective vision are entitled to treatment either by the School Ophthalmic Service or by the Supplementary ODhthalmic Service of the National Health Service. Arrangements were made during the year, to make certain that the parents of affected children are made aware of the possibility of choice of service. As will be seen from the table, the great majority of children are dealt with by the School Ophthalmic Service. CLEANLINESS (i) Total number of examinations in the schools by the school nurses or other authorised persons . . . . 159483 (ii) Total number of individual pupils found to be infested . . . . . . . . . . . . 3415 (iii) Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing notices were issued (Section 54(2) Edu¬ cation Act, 1944) . . . . . . . . . . 105 (iv) Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing orders were issued (Section 54(3), Edu¬ cation Act, 1944) . . . . . . . . . . 36 Fewer cleanliness inspections have been made this year but the figures given show a small but significant improvement on those of 1951. 1 here were very few cases of heavy infestation. The figures show that there has been a fall from 6.7% in 1951 to 5.9% in 1952 in the proportion of the entire school population reported to be verminous. 1 his slight reduction gives little cause for satisfaction as the figures given are higher than those compiled from the national experience.