[Report 1960-1961] / School Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council.

  • Anglesey (Wales). County Council. no2003102100.
Date:
1961
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Credit: [Report 1960-1961] / School Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER MEDICAL INSPECTION In March 1961 Dr. Mair Humphrey Jones intimated that she wished for a further reduction in the number of sessions worked, and the opportunity was taken to review our medical staffing requirements. A report was submitted to the Committee on the effect of abolishing the “Intermediate” routine inspection. This report was based on an analysis of 500 intermediate inspection records chosen at random. In reviewing the findings one was struck by the rarity with which conditions serious enough to affect the child’s health were being discovered for the first time at “intermediate” inspections during 1960 The conclusion was reached that six or so significant “new” defects would come to light for every 1,000 children examined routinely in this age-group. The Committee decided, therefore, that in view of the general arrangements for the supervision of the health of the school child, the “intermediate” routine inspection could be dispensed with. The school population was : Jan., 1961 Jan., 1962 Primary Schools.... 4,827 4,878 Secondary Schools. .. 3,897 3,916 Special School .... . 55 41 8,779 8,835 The average attendance in the primary schools during the school year ended July was 91.9 per cent, in 1960 and 91.7 per cent, in 1961 as compared with 90 per cent, in 1959. In the secondary schools the average attendance was 90.6 per cent. (1960), 90.5 per cent. (1961) and 89.8 per cent. (1959). In the Day Special School for educationally sub-normal pupils the average attendance was 90.6 per cent. (1960) and 91.9 per cent. (1961). The work of medical inspection is detailed in tables at the end of this report. The statistics reflect a satisfactory state of health among the school population.