[Report 1919] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cheshire County Council.

  • Cheshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1919
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    INTRODUCTION. Chester, August 18th, 1920. To the Chairman and Members of the Education CommitUe. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, Id submitting this Eeport to you I have to acknowledge its brevity and tlie absence of anything of very special interest in its contents. Both of these are due to the fact that none of the branches of this work have yet been restored to normal conditions and it is almost .as hard even now to “carry on” as it proved to be during the strenuous years of the actual war. Three of my Assistant Medical Officers were not demobilised until ranch later than was expected and the work had to be carried on with such temporary help as was available. Strenuous efforts are being made to put this work back on a pre-war b.asis or better and the records for the current year will, I fully anticipate, be much improved. May 1 commend your Committee’s special attention to the now proved need for s]»ecial education and training for the feeble-minded and the dull and backward to which I allude in this Report. 1 think it is time that a serious beginning should be made in this matter at all events in certain large centres of po]iulation such as Altrinch.am, Northwich, Runcorn, Ellesmere Port and Lower Bebington. If your Committee should view this proposal favourably I will be prepared to put a detailed scheme before you at an early date. 1 have reproduced as an Appendix to the Report a study of enlarged thyroid glands (goitre) by Dr. W. Stacey who has devoted special attention to the subject. It is of special