[Report 1937] / School Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough.
- Burton upon Trent (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / School Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Annual Report of the School Medical Officer. TO THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY, BURTON UPON TRENT. I have pleasure iu submitting the Annual Report of the School Medical Officer for the year 1937. The report is in the customary form of a commentary on the findings at the statutory medical inspections of school children, and supplementary inspections and treatment ]irovided by the School Medical Service. As was expected, the incidence of Measles dropped almost to vanishing point during 1937, 1936 having been an epidemic year, but there was a decided increase in the case incidence of Scarlet Fever, Mumps, Chicken Pox, and to a lesser extent, Diphtheria. Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria, moreover, were already at a high level of incidence at the beginning of the year. An attempt to stimulate interest in the provision for Diphtheria Immunisation by the distribution of explanatory leaflets to children at school, resulted in an appreciable iiicrease in the requests for immunisatioii of children of all ages. This caused considerable pressure on the time and energy of the School Medical and Nursing Staff for a period, but there were towards the end of 1937, signs of waning interest and a return to former apathy on the part of parents of susceptible children. Later in this Report a summary of results of immunisation against Diphtheria is given. It is to be noticed that while undoubtedly the children immunised have acquired protection against Diphtheria, the total number of children im- munised in reflation to the body of still susceptible children in the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28966855_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
