[Report 1945] / School Medical Officer of Health, Manchester.

  • Manchester (England). Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / School Medical Officer of Health, Manchester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Under the new Act, the terms “ Mentally Deficient ” and “ Feet minded ” are now withdrawn from general use in favour of the desig: tion “ Educationally Subnormal,” and the former is reserved sol for the severe cases of defect who are notifiable under the Mer Deficiency Acts as ineducable in any school maintained by the Lc Education Authority. During the war, as a result of the evacuat scheme, the value of residential special school provision for the edc tionally subnormal child, was made manifest by the experience gaii in the homely institutions set up at Lytham and St. Annes, schc which subsequently received the recognition of the Ministry. With termination of evacuation, these schools were closed and in the t available it was only possible to provide a hostel to accommodate residue of children whose homes were either unsatisfactory or no lor existent. Consideration is now being given to the provision cti further residential school to accommodate at least 100 pupils eithefi adapted premises or in a new building under the general Plarif Development. Similar consideration is also being given to provi:.Ji of a residential school or hostel for the category of maladjusted pu; for whom the Child Guidance Service now provides other form treatment and diagnosis. A futher direction in which progress can be made towards the duction of a comprehensive School Health Service in Manchester, the establishment of a special clinic and a residential institution Jr the treatment and education of children suffering from rheumatism heart complications. The work of the School Health Service is now more closely p ordinated with the other Public Health Services of the City and a slit of helpful co-operation exists between the various departments p cerned. This is shown by the interchange of information with re lu to the notification of infectious diseases of children and others infelu with lice or with scabies ; the treatment at school clinics of chilin found to be suffering from minor ailments or defective vision whe in attendance at the Public Health Welfare Centres, the examinatio |>yi the Chief Tuberculosis Officer of children found or suspected tre cases of tuberculosis ; and by the arrangements made for the c in¬ festation of verminous school children at the Municipal Cleaifig Station. SCHOOL HYGIENE Constant attention is given to the hygienic conditions of the scjol buildings, school lighting, school furniture, playgrounds and offic At the end of each routine school medical inspection, the vi. p medical officer makes a general inspection of the school fabric p equipment, and any conditions found in need of attention are rep p to the Chief Education Officer. Unfortunately, owing to the dila tions and damage sustained during the war years, it has been fMc necessary to tecord an increase in the number of defects and ur factory conditions found. IS'