[Report 1949] / School Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough.

  • Smethwick (Worcestershire, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / School Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Attendances at the clinics (excluding Inspection Clinics, Eye Clinics and Maths) were as follows : — 1949 1948 1947 1949 12,71cS 19,894 l7,(Jf)8 21,724 TUBERCULOSIS. Cases of Tuberculosis are referred for diagiKjsis and treat¬ ment to the Chest Clinic, and are kept under prolonged observation. X-ray examinations are made where indicated as an aid to diagnosis. During the year 245 children of scIkjoI age, including “ contacts ” of known patients, came under the (observation of the Chest Clinic for the first time. The findings in these cases were as follows : — Pulmonary Other Forms Number found Tuberculous 61) 1 Number under observation 4 — Number found Non-Tuberculous 180 The total attendance of schocol children at the clinic was 2,472. The Light Clinic was upen from January to April and from October to December, special cases being treated als(0 during the summer months. The iiumlier of children treated during the year was 118 and 1,407 attendances were made. The chief conditions referred for light treatment were adenitis, Irronchitis, frequent colds ” and catarrh, post- whooping cough, and contact cases of tiibercukjsis. DEFIiCTlVk: VLSION. Mr. M. Wo Archer Hall, D.O. ((Jxon), Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland E}'C llos])ital and the Smethwick Education Committee, reports as follows : — The working of the love Clinic has g(/ne on very snaoothly during the vear. Attendances have been well maintained and 1 understand the waiting jieriod for glasses is lessening. As in previous years, I have operated upon about sixt\ children from the Smethwick area for stiuint (18) and for other conditions of the eye, requiring o])erati(jn.