[Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Dorset County Council.

  • Dorset (England). County Council.
Date:
1970
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Credit: [Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Dorset County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It will be seen from the following table that a greater number of children were inspected in the current year than in 1969, but there was a decrease in the number of children found to be verminous, the incidence of infestation for the whole county falling from 0.5% to 0.4%. No. of children inspected No. found verminous 1969 1970 1969 1970 County Area 13,662 16,376 92 127 (0.8%) Poole 19, 877 18,576 151 68 (0.4%) South Dorset 14,555 14,926 15 19 (0.1%) Whole County 48,094 49, 878 258 214 (0.4%) AUDIOLOGY SERVICE Screening tests are carried out by the health visitors on all babies from seven months as in previous years the other work being divided into two parts (a) Sweep testing in schools in undertaken by a part-time member of staff, who also does the clerical work associated with this. (b) Audiology clinics for children referred by health visitors, medical officers and those who fail the sweep test at school are held by a health visitor trained to do this work. Special audiology clinics are held from time to time at Dorchester clinic attended by Dr Townsend and Mr Glendenning, the County Teacher of the Deaf. Any children with difficult problems are referred to this clinic for further diagnosis, but in general children are referred direct from the audiology clinics to the ENT consultants, by agreement with the child’s medical practitioner. In the whole county twenty children were provided with hearing aids during the year. Our thanks are again extended to the consultant ENT surgeons, who have contributed much to the success of the service. STATISTICS RELATING TO THE ASCERTAINMENT OF DEAFNESS AMONGST CHILDREN IN THE COUNTY AND SOUTH DORSET AREAS SCREENING OF SCHOOL ENTRANTS No. of children given screen tests No. of children failed screening tests No. referred for treatment after investigation South Dorset County Area Totals 785 3,622 4,407 61 332 393 -f 33 146 179