[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough.

  • Chesterfield (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1925
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    8. MEDICAL TREATMENT. The cases treated at the School Clinic are detailed in Table 4. They include minor ailments—skin diseases, external eye diseases, sores, etc., to the number of 546 cases, which made 5,215 attendances. This represents an average of about 25 treatments carried out by the School Nurse daily during 40 weeks in the year. Defective vision is attended to by the School Oculist, Dr. T. E. Ashdown Carr, on Thursday afternoons at the School Clinic. The cases treated numbered 353 and 198 pairs of glasses were prescribed. The operative treatment of defects of nose and throat is not undertaken at the School Clinic. Cases requiring operation are referred to the Hospital and 35 cases were operated on during the year. The work of the School Dentist, Mr. A. Roydon Littlar,. who devotes half his time (six morning sessions per week) to it, has increased continuousl}'^ from its inception in 1922. Dental inspections numbered 4069 in 1925 as against 3072 in 1924, and cases treated 1,755 compared with 1,581. Further details of this work are given in Table 4. 9. OPEN-AIR EDUCATION. Open-air education continues to receive more attention, and when weather permits open-air classes are held in the playgrounds at many of the schools. As already indicated under “ School Hygiene ” the new schools of the Borough are being built after the open-air type. In 1925 a Rotary Summer Camp for boys and girls Avas established through the generosity of Rotarian Arthur Toavii- row. It is beautifully situated at an elevation of nearly 1,000ft., about four miles from Chesterfield on the upland moor between Chesterfield and Matlock. Two wooden buildings provide sleeping accommodation for 21 persons, and there are dining room, recreation room, kitchen and larder. The accommoda- tion can be increased by the use of tents. In 1925 eleven boys and eleven girls from the elementary schools were sent to this Camp by the Rotary Club and thirteen boys and twelve girls were sent by the Education Committee. Eleven boys and thirteen girls for Avhom half expenses Avere paid by the Education Committee were also sent to the Camp. It is available for use b)'’ any organisation of boys or girls under