[Report 1952] / School Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council.

  • Anglesey (Wales). County Council. no2003102100.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / School Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER THE RESULTS OF MEDIC AL INSPECTION The school population on 8th January, 1952, was :— Primary and Modern Schools 6,027 Grammar Schools 1,740 7,767 The work of medical inspection is detailed in tables at the end of this report. The statistics reflect a satisfactory state of health among the school population. This opinion is confirmed by other information. During the year there was for instance only 1 death of a child aged 5 to 15 years (a death rate of approximately 0.15 per 1,000 school population per annum). Details of notifiable diseases for the year are appended, showing the total occurring at all ages and the number among children of school age. Disease Urban Rural Total No. of School-age Children Diphtheria — — — — Scarlet Fever 39 19 58 48 Ac. Poliomyelitis 1* 1* 2* 1* Ac. Pneumonia 9 20 29 6 Dysentery 4 9 6 1 Erysipelas 1 i 2 — Food Poisoning 2 5 7 — Measles 11 59 70 42 Whooping Cough 113 173 286 123 TOTAI 180 280 460 221 * Paralytic The infectious diseases were less troublesome than in 1951, particularly measles and whooping cough. A mild form of scarlet fever was rather more prevalent than in the previous year. Once again the county escaped any serious outbreak of poliomyelitis. No cases of diphtheria occurred in the county. School attendance was good. In the primary schools the average attendance was 90 per cent, of the children on register, and in the county secondary grammar schools the attendance was 93 per cent. The corresponding figures for 1951 were 86 and 91 per cent, respectively.