[Report 1933] / School Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council.

  • Hertfordshire (England). County Council. n 50062101.
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / School Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Annual Report on School Health. Chapter I—ADMINISTRATION. The following Report, which is the twenty-sixth of its series, gives particulars of the work of School Medical Inspection and of the treatment of defects in school children carried out during the year. There have been two changes in the personnel of the School Medical Officers during the year. Dr. H. VV. Grattan has been appointed to succeed the late Dr. A. C. Ballance for the Hatfield Rural District. It is with regret that I have to report the death of Dr. F. P. Wigfield, of Puckeridge, who acted as School Medical Officer for Buntingford and parts of the Rural Districts of Hadham and Ware. He has been succeeded by his son, Dr. A. S. Wigfield, of Buntingford. In the following tables particulars are given of the work of the respective Assistant School Medical Officers during the year. In Table I particulars are given regarding the estimated population and the average number of children on the books in the Urban and Rural Districts. The estimated population for the county for 1933 was 421,200. The average number of children on the books was 45,421, compared with 44,234 for the previous year, showing an increase of 1,187, compared with 1,276 for the previous year. Table II gives information regarding the actual number of Inspections and visits to schools made by the Assistant School Medical Officers during the year. It will be observed that, with one or two exceptions, inspections at and visits to the schools have been made in excess of those required, in several cases to a considerable extent.