[Report 1948] / School Medical Officer of Health, Wiltshire County Council.

  • Wiltshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / School Medical Officer of Health, Wiltshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WILSTHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL EDUCATION COMMITTEE To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee of Wiltshire County Council. Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit the Annual Report on the work of the School Medical Service in the Administrative County of Wiltshire during the year 1948. For the first six months of the year, the work of the School Medical Service proceeded on lines similar to those given in my 1947 report. The County Council’s special out-patient clinics and arrangements for in-patient treatment in the County Council’s own hospitals and in voluntary hospitals were all working smoothly and most of the ground lost, due to the hold-up of ear, nose and throat operations which resulted from the occurrence in the County of cases of poliomyelitis, was regained. Later on in this report mention is made of the manner in which the special clinics changed hands under the provisions of the National Health Service Act as from 5th July, 1948. Over in-patient treatment, the loss of the County Council hospitals and the end of the Council’s position as contractor with hospitals for services rendered cannot as yet be said to have resulted in a service that is any better than that which had been provided by the County Council. It must, however, be borne in mind that the raising of the school-leaving age has resulted in additional numbers of cases to be dealt with, and this fact in some measure accounts for the increases in the figures in the statistical tables. Dr. Urquhart, Senior Assistant County Medical Officer, and the clerical staff in the School Medical Section have again been of great help to me in all matters connected with the school child. I am, Your Obedient Servant, J. BURMAN LOWE, County School Medical Officer. County Hall, Trowbridge. May, 1949.