[Report 1944] / School Medical Officer of Health, Carlisle City.

  • Carlisle (England). City Council.
Date:
1944
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Credit: [Report 1944] / School Medical Officer of Health, Carlisle City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    UNCLEANIjINESS'. 316 children were excluded from school for Terminous conditions during’ the year. This is a decrease of 47 on the previous year. The following summai’y gives the details of these exclusions: — 209 were excluded on one occasion, 60 on two occasions, and 47 on three or more occasions. The total number of examinations of children in the schools by the School Nurses was 26,626, which included 111 amongst evacuated children from the Newcastle area. In 15 instances of children who were repeatedly found in a verminous condition the parents were warned by a letter from the Director of Education. INFECTIOUS DISEASES. There was an increase in the number of cases of Infectious Diseases notified during the year; this being most marked in the cases of measles and chickenpox, where 234 and 394 cases were notified as against 57 and 75 during the previous year. The exceptions were whooping cough and mijmps, 96 and 89 cases respectively being notified, as compared with 123 and 172 in 1943. Of the other notifiable diseases the number of cases notified was scarlet feVer, 83; and diphtheria, 37. The comparative figures for 1943 being 50 and 6’respectively. IMMUNISATION AGAINST DIPHTHERIA. Since the beginning of the year 249 school children received the full course of inoculations. This is a very marked fall in the number immunised; but, owing to the greatly increased numbers of children in the pre-school age group 1—5 years being immunised during the past few years, children are being admitted to school already immunised. Thus the number of school children requiring to be done is correspondingly smaller. At the end of the year the percentage rate of immunised children amongst the school population was 79, which compares very favourably with previous years.