[Report 1949] / School Medical Officer of Health, Coventry.

  • Coventry (England). City Council.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / School Medical Officer of Health, Coventry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lO ascribed to the stringent follow-up of contacts in the schools with the Wood's Light method of diagnosis. The declining incidence of scabies is also worthy of note, 76 cases being treated in 1949 compared with 208 in the previous year. There were 210 cases of impetigo during the past year compared with 357 for 1948, a decrease of 147. The total number of school children found to be infested with pediculi in 1949 was 1,230 compared with 1,249 during the preceding year. Corley Open Air School. It is with renewed pleasure that I comment upon the progress achieved for children attending this school during 1949. L^st year 'the satisfactory residts of the treatment of enuresis amongst delicate children were noted and this year we have, in addition, the satisfaction of knowing that the combined efforts of the staff have been of great help in reducing the number of attacks for those children suffering from asthma. It has also been possible for many of the children to progress without recourse to the usual type of •drugs. In spite of shortage of staff, the children have been encouraged to help themselves whenever possible. We are fortunate in having at Corley nurses who have been partictdarly interested in these children and they have been unsparing in their efforts to help their young charges. The school now has a badminton court and the children also play cricket and inter-school football matches. The children benefited considerably from the long summer and the playroom has thereby not been required so often. Due to force of circumstances, at one period during the year there were 102 children accommodated at Corley. This positio7i eve^ituated because the school was in quarantine approximately 4 weeks as a result of mumps and as this reduced the admissions to nil, something had to be done to accommodate the children who had waited so long. One child contracted scarlet fever during the year and was removed to the Isolation Hospital. Nurse Poole was still in residence by the end of the year as also was Nurse Rideout, the State Enrolled Nurse; Nurse JoJm- stone was with us for two months. I should like to express to these mirses my appreciation for their work during the year. Miss Cabom and her teaching staff deserve much credit fpr their valuable work in the school. Theirs is much more than a teachmg job; it is ^parent” and teacher rolled into one. Their continued and willing co-operation with members of the School Health Department is much appreciated and this mutual and pleasing liaison is productive of beneficial residts on behalf of the children. Dr. M. M. R. Gaffney has stipplied further detailed comments upon the work at Corley Open Air School during 1949 : these appear elsewhere m the report.