[Report 1924] / School Medical Service, Dunbarton County Council.

  • Dumbartonshire (Scotland). County Council. School Medical Service.
Date:
1924
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Credit: [Report 1924] / School Medical Service, Dunbarton County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFACE. To the Education Authority of the County of Dumbarton. Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg to submit the Fourteenth Annual Report on the Medical Inspection of School Children in the County, which has been compiled by the Medical Officers. The work of the Treatment Clinics will be found at the end of the Report. Although the figures do not materially differ from those of the last few years, there are one or two matters of consider- able interest which should be referred to. It will be noted that a certain number of children are still attending the schools in the County in a verminous condition, and I would here appeal to the School Management Committees to deal more stringently with the parents of these children. Inspection of 7,446 children this year by the Medical Staff revealed the fact that 2,665, or nearly 36%, showed no dental decay. As regards treatment, 11,718 children were inspected by the Dental Staff, and of this number 6,006 were treated at the dental clinics. Since the commencement of the work at the Adenoids and Tonsils Clinics, 3,440 operations have been completed, and although several children developed pneumonia at varying periods after the operation, they all recovered eventually ; during 1924-1925, however, a death occurred within 36 hours of an operation, but the actual cause of death could not be ascertained definitely. It must, further, be recorded here that the time appears to be approaching when it will be impossible to carry out the Medical Work efficiently with a staff of only two whole-time Medical Officers. Apart from the routine inspections, the Medical Officers have now to carry out a great mass of non- routine work ; this consists of skin clinic work, examinations of children applying for employment licences and for exemption from physical training, and also the examination and certifi-