[Report 1928] / School Medical Officer of Health, Holland County Council (Lincolnshire).

  • Holland (England). County Council.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / School Medical Officer of Health, Holland County Council (Lincolnshire). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Blind Children * Deaf Children (including Dumb) Mentally Defective Children XVII. — Blind. Dkaf, Defective and Epileptic Children — Children coming within the above-mentioned categories are ascertained by the School Medical Officers, School Nurses, Teachers and School Attendance Officers. Of the seven (7) totally blind children four are attending special schools and three are at no school or institution. Two (2) partially blind children are attending public elementary schools. Eight (8) children come within this category and of these four are attending certified schools. The position with regard to this class of child remains unaltered. It is absolutely impossible to find accommodation for educable defectives or for that matter ineducable ones. The result is that many of these defectives are attending Elementary Schools where their presence is in many cases anything bur desirable as far as the normal children are concerned. Special accommodation for such children within the County is an urgent necessity. DENTAL SERVICE. The School Dental Service was inaugurated in January, 1926, and has now been sufficient!)'long in operation to prove beyond doubt that such a service was urgently required. The Scheme in this area has to provide for the inspection and treatment of approximately 11,300 children distributed in the 91 Schools. The number of children comprised in the age groups at present being dealt with is approximately 4,000, of whom at present 2,000 are willing to avail themselves of treatment. For this work only four-fifths of the School Dentist’s time is available in the County. To complete the first circuit of the 91 Schools and carry out treatment for approximately 40% of the children comprised in the age group 5 to 7 years occupied sixteen months. A second circuit of the Schools was commenced in April, 1927, and an extra age group brought into the scheme, together with a re-inspection of all those children dealt with at the first inspection. At the 31st December, 1928, 69 out of the 91 schools had been visited and of these 34 had been completed for treatment. It will thus be seen that in the same period of approximately sixteen months it was only possible, owing to the inclusion of an extra age group, and an increase in the percentage of acceptance, to complete one-third of the Schools.