[Report 1948] / School Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council.

  • Anglesey (Wales). County Council. no2003102100.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / School Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE WORK OF THE SCHOOL NURSES The appointment of wholetime school nurse-health visitors was an important step forward taken during the year as the result of the National Health Service Act. The scheme approved by the Minister for implementing Section 24 of that Act provided for an establishment of 8 such officers, and by the end of the year 7 of the posts had been filled. Up to the time when these new officers took up their appoint- ments the work of school nurse devolved, as hitherto, on the district nurses. The tables printed below give some indication of the volume of work done by these valuable members of the staff. No. of schools in district Total average attend’ces No. of pupils examined No. of visits to homes No. of visits to schools Amlwch 8 844 13,144 128 314 Beaumaris 10 952 7,902 439 230 Bodorgan 7 610 7,231 334 229 Holyhead 8 1,949 14,106 562 266 Llarifechell 10 680 7,703 138 273 Llangefni 8 810 9,379 174 268 Menai Bridge 9 886 8,395 551 263 Total 60 6,731 67,860 2,326 1,843 Uncleanliness of person and clothing is often detected, and in- creasing use has been made during the year of the machinery laid down in Section 54 of the Act as is shown in Table V. Occasionally com- plaint is heard of the inadequacies of the soap ration, particularly in some areas where the water is unduly hard. ORTHOPAEDIC CARE AND AFTER-CARE Mr. Bryan McFarland reports that:— “The Orthopaedic Service of Anglesey has continued to work very satisfactorily during 1948. “Little, if any, avoidable crippling defects still persist in Anglesey. . . . This seems to be an appropriate time to assess the value of the work done for crippled children by the Anglesey County Council during the last twenty years. Perhaps three conditions will suffice to indicate the level of achievement: 1. The average age of detection of congenital dislocation of the hip seems to me to be a third of what it was in about 1930. The importance of this lies in the fact that up to eighteen