[Report 1960] / School Medical Officer of Health, Bootle County Borough.

  • Bootle (Lancashire, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1960
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Credit: [Report 1960] / School Medical Officer of Health, Bootle County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOREWORD Health Department, Town Hall, Bootle. August, 1961 To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee. Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present the fifty-third Annual Report on the health of the school children in Bootle. Dr. R. S. E. Cutcliffe was appointed School Medical Officer and Assistant Medical Officer of Health and commenced duties on the 1st June. At the routine medical examinations carried out during the year 21 children or 0.51 per cent of the 4,138 examined were classified as of poor general condition, as compared with 27 children or 0.56 per cent of those examined the previous year. Since 1947 when this classification was introduced there has been an almost continuous improvement in the condition of the children examined. The school nurses made 40,210 examinations for cleanliness, and evidence of uncleanliness was found in 797 instances. This is 1.9 per cent of the examinations as compared with 2.6 per cent in the previous year. This is a slight improvement but, as stated in previous reports, there always remains a hard core of cases which has to be kept under supervision by the school nurses. During the year, the assistant medical officers made 59 examina- tions under the terms of Circular 249 of the Ministry of Education of entrants to the courses of training for teaching and to the teaching profession. It was not necessary to close any school or department during the year on account of infectious diseases. There were 27 fewer cases of scarlet fever reported, but an increase of 241 in the number of cases of measles. There was an increased incidence in the number of cases of measles notified throughout the Borough; this increase occurred in two waves, one from the middle of March to July, and the other from October which extended to March, 1961. Again no case of diphtheria was reported during the year, and there was an increase in the number of school