[Report 1938] / School Health Service, Cornwall County Council.

  • Cornwall (England). County Council. School Health Service.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / School Health Service, Cornwall County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it is useful to add ^ and B together. Some comparative figures are— A B C D Slightly Excellent. Normal. Sub-normal. Bad Cornwall 1936 21.1 69.7 8.3 0.8 Cornwall 1937 21.9 69.7 7-7 0.8 Cornwall 1938 24-3 66.5 8.5 0.7 England and Wales 1936 14.6 74-2 10.5 0.7 England and Wales 1937 14.6 74.1 10.6 0.7 (b) Uncleanliness. (See Table VI). Health Visitors and District Nurses usually make at least one visit to each school each term and inspect all the children present. Of the individual children examined, 3,077 were not quite satisfactory. It must be noted that this figure includes all defects found, however slight. This gives a percentage of 10.9 which is higher than that for England and Wales (about 9.8%). If the inspection is not carefully performed, many cases are missed and the figures seem better. These figures are of course disappointing, but under the present school conditions improvement will be slow owing to the relapse of the chronic cases after cleansing. Last year the percentage was 12 in Cornwall. (c) Minor Ailments and Diseases of the Skin. Children suffering from minor ailments or diseases of the skin arc excluded from school attendance when necessary and the home treatment supeiwised by the School Nurses. In large towns the children are sent from the schools to school clinics for daily treatment, but this is only useful in large centres—the numbers are too small elsewhere to warrant the establishment of school clinics. In England and Wales it is usually estimated that about 10% of children in average attendance require treatment annually for minor ailments and about this number of children are followed up by the School Nurses. It will soon be possible to arrange for X-ray treatment of ringworm of the scalp in the County. Previously the nearest centre was Plymouth. In 1927 a special inquiry was made as to the number of cases of ring- worm known and 20 cases of ringworm of the scalp and 20