[Report 1932] / School Medical Officer of Health, Salford.

  • Salford (England). Council.
Date:
1932
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Credit: [Report 1932] / School Medical Officer of Health, Salford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Co-ordination. (а) Infant and Child Welfare.—Medical records are transferred from the Child Welfare Department to the School Medical Department when children attain school age. As the two Child Welfare Centres at Regent Road and Teneriffe Street are housed in the same buildings as the two School Clinics co-operation of the two departments is further assured. (б) Nursery Schools.—The Child Welfare Medical Officer pays weekly visits to the Nursery School for the purpose of examining the children. (c) Debilitated Children under school age are dealt with in the Child Welfare Department. School Hygiene. Much of the work of medical treatment of school children would be unnecessary if it were possible to concentrate more upon the preventive side of the problem. For instance, a good deal of visual defect and eye strain might be avoided if the lighting in all the schools was what it ought to be. In the same way, there is being manufactured in crowded and insufficiently ventilated classrooms much of the material with which open air schools are filled. Similarly, defective hygiene is responsible to a large extent for the spread of epidemic infectious disease among school children. If all the schools were more on open air lines there would, surely, be a great falling-off in the incidence of infectious disease. It is true, procedure can only be slow in this direction because of the great cost involved, but it is well that the preventive aspect of the problem should not be lost sight of. With regard to the new schools at present under contemplation, it will be the Committee’s policy to provide classrooms on the lines of the Open Air Schools, where the character of site and other conditions permit. As regards sanitation the schools were regularly visited by the ■Sanitary Inspectors, who have paid altogether 544 visits. Improvement in the sanitary condition of outside offices, yards, etc., has been maintained. Sanitary Inspectors’ Visits to Schools. 544 Defects Found. 11 Drains defective . 6 W.C. Basin defective . 1 W.C. defective. 1 Urinals defective. 2 Refuse receptacle defective. 1