[Report 1920] / School Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / School Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the fact that the children were nearing the age for lea\dng School to go to Agricultural ^\ork, where the need for spectacles does not arise. hxTERNAL Eye Disease. 77 cases of external eve disease were reported during the \'ear. I'lie chief defects were inllannnatir)n of the eyes, and eyelids. All such c'ases are xa’sited by the School Xurses, and in some cases treated l)^■ them. rw(j cases of external eye disease ^\ere treatcxl at Hospitals at the expense of the Ifducation Atithority. ^roNsiLS AND Adenoids. f Altogether 319 cases of enlarged tonsils and adenoids were brought to the notice of parents. In fifty-one of these the Atithorit\' paid, entireh' or in part, for the removal by operation.