[Report 1920] / School Medical Officer of Health, Holland County Council (Lincolnshire).

  • Holland (England). County Council.
Date:
1920
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    TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OP THE Ibollanb Count? Education Committee. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, My twelfth Annual Beport, which follows, on the work of the School Medical Service in this area for the year end¬ ing 3.1st December, 1920, has been drawn up, so far as is practic¬ able, under the heads suggested in a memorandum recently issued by the Board of Education. In this memorandum, the Board ask, in connection with every branch of the work, for a review of the methods adopted; if these have been described in former reports they are not repeated here. On a number of im¬ portant points it is not practicable to- give precise information, as the scheme adopted by your Committee and submitted to the Board of Education on 12th July, 1920, has not yet been approved by them. 1. PARTICULARS OF STAFF. School Medical Officer and Medical Inspector of School Children.—A. W. Tuxford, M.D., M.B.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H., who is also County Medical Officer of Health and County Tuber¬ culosis Officer. Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeon.—W. G. Laws, Esq., M.B., C.M., E.R.C.S. (Eng.) School Nursing Staff. District. Nurse. Northern. Miss A. M. Parsons, C.M.B. Central. Aliss A. D. Black, C.M.B. Western. Miss E. Snaith, resigned 10th Apr., 1920. ,, Miss A. Parkinson, C.M.B., resigned 3rd Jan., 1921. Southern. Miss F. Laidler, resigned 30th Sep., 1920. ,, Miss E. Ward, C.M.B., resigned 3rd Jan., 1921. Eastern. Miss A. L. Wharton, C.M.B. Each Nurse, who is also Infant and Tuberculosis Health Visitor, devotes approximately two-fifths of her time to School Work, her duties including the following up of defective children, the treatment of minor defects, attendance at medical inspections and school clinics and periodical inspection of the children’s hair and clothing. The Nurses in the Western and Southern dis¬ tricts resigned through inability to obtain suitable lodging ac¬ commodation in Spalding, and your Committee, therefore, de¬ cided not to make any further appointments for the present.