[Report 1933] / School Health Service, Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire (Wales). County Council. School Health Service.
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / School Health Service, Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    should be done at least once a day. Further, children with persistently positive results should have their nose and throat sprayed with anti-toxin by a Medical Officer. The latter is admittedly an experiment, but results elsewhere appear to justify a trial, and the cost of anti-toxin used, if successful, would be very much outweighed by getting the children to school several weeks earlier.” During the year 3,002 swabs were taken by the School Medical Staff and examined for diphtheria bacilli at the County Laboratory, 6 schools (9 de- partments) being involved. The examination of the swabs gave 238 positive and 2,764 negative results. When the diphtheria bacillus was found in a swab, the parents of the child were notified and advised to call in a medical practitioner; the child was excluded from school and the Medical Officer of Health of the area in which the child resided was notified. The positive cases -were re-swabbed until three consecutive negative results were obtained. The notifications received from Head Teachers were:— Measles ... 1303 Scabies 5 Whooping- Cough ... 340 Impetigo 13 Scarlet Fever . . 563 Influenza ... 6002 Chicken Pox ... 603 Other Diseases 34 Mumps ... 589 —-— Diphtheria ■ ... 148 9606 German Measles 1 Ringworm ... 5 It was found necessary to close 8 departments on account of the prevalence of infectious or other diseases as follows:—Chicken Pox 1, Influ- enza 4, Measles 2, Diphtheria 1. Authority is now given to Head Teachers whereby registers need not be marked when, through the prevalence of infec- tious disease amongst the scholars, the percentage of attendance for any week falls below 60 per cent. Certificates were given to 64 departments on account of the following conditions:— Measles ... ... ... 11 Chicken Pox ... 5 Whooping-Cough ... . 2 Mumps ... ... ... 4 Disinfection of school premises is undertaken by the County Sanitary Inspector when necessary. There were in addition 8 specimens of urine and 4 eye swabs from school children examined at the Laboratory.
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