[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicester Borough.

  • Leicester (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicester Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (2) All health visitors appointed now undertake some duties in the School Health Service so that they are not employed whole-time in the Maternity and Child Welfare Department, as will be noted in the attendances at School Clinics. (3) Certain health visitors have devoted more time to specialised work, e.g. Deafness in the Young Child, and have carried out screening tests in Day Nurseries and Child Welfare Centres. The emphasis will, therefore, be on selective visiting and specialised work and not on the quantity of work undertaken. Deafness in the Young Child Details of the establishment and the scope of this pioneer clinic were included in the report for 1952. The following is a summary of the work during the year under review : Number of sessions held (for Ascertainment and Training) Number of individual children referred (inch 22 from other Local Authorities) Number of attendances made by the children . . Average attendance of children at each clinic . . Source of Recommendation : Medical Staff of Health Departments . . . . .‘>0 Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeons (direct) . . . . 5 Paediatricians . . . . . . . . . . 1 Health Visitors . . . . . . . . . . 2 Day Nursery Staff . . . . . . . . 1 Mental Health Department . . . . . . - 39 Number of children who have attended for the first time. . 39 Number of children who, after adequate investigation, have been shown to have normal hearing . . . . 19 Results of Tests of Hearing : Children who have acuity over the whole range of speech frequencies . . . . . . . . . . 19 Children who have hearing over part of the range of speech frequencies . . . . . . . . 13 Children who possess merely an island of hearing . . 3 Children who have not yet responded reliably to tests. . 1 Children who have not yet responded to any sound stimuli . . . . . . . . . . 3 for 58 39 353 6