[Report 1933] / School Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough.

  • Blackpool (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / School Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    n VI. CLOTHING AND FOOTGEAR. With a few exceptions the clothing and footgear was found to be satisfactory. At the routine inspections seven were noted as wearing ragged untidy clothing or bad footgear. Three letters relating to four children in need of help were sent to the Chief Constable, and the usual helpful attention was given to the matter by him. VII. MINOR AILMENTS. The medical clinic is open during the whole of the school year from 2 until 4-30 o’clock on five afternoons of the week, and the dental clinic from 9 a.m. until 4-30 p.m. Both clinics are open on Saturday mornings from 10 o’clock until noon. During the school holidays they are open from 10 until 12 o’clock on the morning of each week day. The clinic is fulfilling its function as a centre for the treatment of minor ailments and an administrative centre for dealing with many problems relating to school health. The number of attendances continues to increase and many messages of appreciation have been received from parents. Fourteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine attendances were made during the year 1933 comprising 3910 individual children giving an average of 3 -8 attendances per child. Suitable cases are referred for treatment to the following centres : The Victoria Hospital. The Tuberculosis Dispensary. The Orthopaedic Clinic, Fleetwood. The Manchester Eye Hospital. The Education Committee sanctions any treatment which may be necessary for the school children at these institutions, and defrays the expense for necessitous children for such conditions as come within the scope of treatment approved by the Board of Education. The local hospital admits major cases such as appendicitis, mastoid disease, severe inflammation of the eyes, etc., as ordinary in-patients when they are passed on there for treatment,