[Report 1916] / School Medical Officer, Nottinghamshire County Council.

  • Nottinghamshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1916
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Credit: [Report 1916] / School Medical Officer, Nottinghamshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The number of defects treated was 482, or 48 per cent. The smaller proportion compared with 1915 is entirely due to diminished Staff causing less active following up. These figures do not include the large number of verminous children treated by their parents or by the School Nurses. The most important requirement to improve the proportion and the quality of the treatment is a Clinic where enlarged tonsils and adenoids could be adequately and efficiently treated. It is greatly to be desired that this should be undertaken after the war. Following' up.—All the children in whom defects have been dis¬ covered are “ followed up ” by being visited at home by one of the Nurses, and are also re-examined by one of the School Medical Officers on the next occasion that the school is inspected. In this way 2282 children have been re-examined. Eye Work .—The Special Refraction Examinations have been con¬ tinued as far as possible by Dr. Rose Hudson, single handed, during 1918, in addition to her other work. The chief centres have been : — The Shire Hall, Hucknall, Mansfield Woodhouse, Newark, Sutton- in-Ashfield, Warsop, and Worksop. The number of children examined has reached 517, compared with 528 in 1915, when Dr. Holmes was giving a large amount of time to this work before undertaking military duties. In addition, 94 children were re-examined, making a total of 611. The results are given in Table III. Table III.—Analysis of Special Eye Cases, 1916. Number of children examined—517. Boys. Girls. Total. Hypermetropia 100 166 266 Hypermetropic Astigmatism ... 96 42 188 Myopia 20 27 47 Myopic Astigmatism 12 12 24 Mixed Astigmatism... 11 10 21 Anisometropia 4 8 7 Corneal Opacities 7 5 12 Lamellar Cataract ... 1 1 2 ♦ 251 266 517 The above include 128 cases of Squint