[Report 1951] / School Medical Officer of Health, Bootle County Borough.

  • Bootle (Lancashire, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1951
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Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1951] / School Medical Officer of Health, Bootle County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (4) Misckj^lakkous Examinations.—lu addition to the ordinary work of routine and sjieeial exauiiuatioiis and re-inspections undertaken during the year, the following work was carried out; — Examination of: — Children as to fitness for employment ... ... 117 ,, for ascertainment of educational sub- normality ... ... ... ... 54 Other children ... ... ... ... ... ... 118 In addition, the Director of Education was supplied with medical histories of 192 juvenile offenders. The following table shows the number of such reports supplied during the past five years: — 1951 192 1950 227 1949 204 1948 266 1947 132 A summary of tin' defects noted at both periodic and special examinations showed that 9,893 defects were referred for treatment or further observation. The incidence of the commoner physical defects in children examined during periodic medical inspection was as follows:—Poor general condition, 1'9 per cent.; squint, 2'4 per cent.; external eye disease, 2‘8 per cent.; chronic tonsillitis, 1‘7 per cent.; adenoids, 0’2 per cent.; chronic tonsillitis and adenoids, 0'2 per cent.; anaemia, 2‘7 per cent.; lung disease, 7'3 per cent.; otorrhoea, 1'4 per cent.; enlarged cervical glands, 11'8 per cent.; defective vision, 26'3 per cent.; skin conditions, 5’2 per cent.; heai-t (cong. and funct.), 3‘5 per cent.; rickets, 1'9 per cent.; flat feet, 14'0 per cent.; posture, 20 per cent. Children I’eferred for treatment or further observation constituted 76'1 per cent, of the entrants examined, 77’8 per cent, of the primary leavers examined, and 76’0 per cent, of the third group examined. GENERAL CONDITION. It will be noti'd in Table 11 (B), on page 22, that classification of the children by “general condition” has been substituted for the former classification by “nutrition”; and this taiile shows that out of a total of 3,893 children examined 1'93 per cent, were' gi'ouped as in poor general condition as comj)ared with 3'51 pei' cent, last year.