[Report 1934] / School Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough.

  • Burton upon Trent (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1934
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Credit: [Report 1934] / School Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Full co-ordination continues to exist with the general practitioners the staffs of institutions, the Certifying Factory Surgeon and the Voluntary Associations of the area whose liberal co-operation is hereby acknowledged with many thanks. 3. School Hygiene. The new school in Clarence Street is still awaited to relieve the overcrowding in the Uxbridge Street and Christ Church Schools. The Horninglow Schools are also in danger of becoming overcrowded in view of the opening out of Harper Avenue but perhaps the provision of new houses in other parts of the town will preclude the danger. Few of the schools in the Town could in view of their age be considered to meet the latest type of modern hygienic requirements, but from their condition and the study of the children who use them they may be considered to be adequate. 4. Medical Inspection. The age groups inspected during the year 1934 were those required by the Board of Education :— 1. Entrants—children admitted during the year. 2. Intermediates—children in their 9th year. 3. Leavers—children in their 13th year. Also special cases referred for examination for some defect by their parents or teachers. Reinspection of children found at a previous inspection to be defective was carried out each term. The number of routine inspections in all groups was 2,494, a decrease in all groups, but chiefly in the “ leavers.” This will con- tinue to be evident in the next few years due to the fall in the birth rate since the early years after the Great War. In 1934 the average number of children on the school roll was 7,889 and the average number in attendance 7,111. The School Nurses made 24,425 examinations during 13 visits to each school. These general inspections are made for detection of uncleanliness and skin diseases, for hygienic advice to scholars and teachers and the following up of the results of treatment and advice given by them and the School Medical Offlcers to parents.