[Report 1951] / School Medical Officer of Health, Bootle County Borough.
- Bootle (Lancashire, England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1951
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Credit: [Report 1951] / School Medical Officer of Health, Bootle County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![‘1 Health Department, Town Halt,, Bootle. May, 1952. To the Chairman and Memhern of the Education Committee. Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present the forty-fourth Annual Deport on the health of the school children in Bootle. With the appointment of Dr. B. S. Jarvis as an Assistant Medical Officer on 1st March, the medical staff of the department reached its full establishment, and it will be noticed that there has been an increase in the number of children examined at the routine and special examina- tions and also of the number of children submitted for re-examination. The nutritional standard of the children examined as entrants to school is good; the average weights of both boys and girls continue to show an increase, the nutritional standard showing a continuous improvement since 1942. Only 1’9 per cent, of a total of 4,893 children examined, compared with 3'5 per cent, for the previous year, are noted as being of pooi‘ generai condition. It is pleasing to note that the general standard of cleanliness also continues to improve, 1,891 cases of uncleanliness being reported by the school nurses as against 1,938 in the previous year, while there was also an im])rovement in the cases attending the IMinor Ailments Clinic with infections of the skin—1,800 cases as against 1,964 in 1950. Forty-foui' childien wei'e referred to the Chest Physician as sus- pected to be suffering fi'om tuberculosis, but in no case was the diagnosis confirmed, while five cases were still under observation at the end of the year.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28939608_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
