[Report 1949] / School Health Service, Radnorshire County Council.

  • Radnorshire (Wales). County Council. School Health Service.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / School Health Service, Radnorshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ORTHOPAEDIC TREATMENT. Orthopaedic treatment continues to be given by the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. Specialists from the staff of this Hospital regularly attend Orthopaedic clinics in the county and surrounding areas and children requiring a specialist’s advice in regard to orthopaedic defects are referred to them. In addition, the Orthopaedic After-Care Sister from the same Hospital conducts a clinic at the County Buildings, Llandrindod Wells, every other Thursday. Treatment of Defective Vision and Squint. Dr. H. Woodward Barnes is employed by the Radnorshire Education Committee and is paid at the rate laid down by the Ministry of Education. Part of this expenditure is recovered from the Executive Council. Dr. Woodward Barnes attended Eye Clinics at the County Buildings, Llandrindod Wells (3 sessions); Church Hall, Knighton (3 sessions); and the Village Hall, Clyro (1 session). Seventy-five children were examined, and spec- tacles or new lenses were prescribed in 50 cases. In 14 cases no change of treatment was recommended. In addition children wire dealt with under the Supplementary Ophthalmic Service provided as pare of National Health Service. In this case after receiving a certificate from their own doctor that they needed spectacles, they were examined by an Optician. It is, however, highly desirable in all cases that the testing of a child’s vision should be carried out by a doctor with specialist qualifications, and the arrangements made under the Supplementary Ophthalmic Service, although necessary in the case of adults for whom in many areas no arrangements have as yet been made for their examination by an Ophthalmic Surgeon, are not normally necessary in the case of school children where such a Specialist service has been provided. Considerable delay in obtaining spectacles pres- cribed for school children by the School Oculist is still being experienced, although this delay is on an average less than during the previous year.