[Report 1958] / School Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council, Scarborough Divisional Executive.

  • North Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council (Scarborough Divisional Executive)
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / School Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council, Scarborough Divisional Executive. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TREATMENT OF DEFECTS Minor Ailments. School clinic sessions were held daily at Pickering and Scarborough, three times weekly at Whitby, Grangetown, New Earswick, twice weekly at Carlin How, Redcar, Thornaby, South Bank and Clifton Without, and once weekly at Lingdale, Guisborough, New Skelton, Easingwold and Saltburn. As well as being used for the supervision and treatment of relatively trivial conditions, the clinics provide suitable centres at which the school medical officers are available for consultation by parents or teachers. Examinations of various kinds are carried out in the clinics which are an important part of the school health service: more and more t< of the time of the staff at these clinics is given to assessment of handicaps : and other special examinations. The conditions for which the children attended, and the number of visits and re-visits made were as follows:— Attendances at Minor Ailment Clinics Condition for which children attended Number of Number of the School Clinic first visits re-visits Scabies 31 15 Impetigo 52 80 Ringworm—Head 20 39 Ringworm—Body 13 26 Verminous conditions 489 417 Minor Injuries 979 476 External Eye Disease 71 38 Ear Discharge and Deafness 102 180 Nose and Throat 33 11 Vision 444 148 Lungs 1 — Nervous System 4 —• Skin (Non-Contagious) 707 812 Sores 649 270 Other conditions 469 288 Heart and Circulation 22 19 Speech 1 —- Diphtheria Immunisation 37 30 Special Examinations 105 ‘ 3 Total 4,229 2,852