[Report 1955] / School Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council, Scarborough Divisional Executive.

  • North Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council (Scarborough Divisional Executive)
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / School Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council, Scarborough Divisional Executive. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IS Number of Nurses’ Home Visits arising from School Medical Inspections. Condition No. of defects found for which treatment was considered necessary No. of visits by School Nurses Cleanliness of Head 7 24 Nutrition 17 17 Nose and Throat 446 486 External Eye Disease 17 20 Ear Disease 67 102 Oral conditions 8 8 Heart and Circulation 54 66 Lungs 106 133 Nervous System 21 27 Skin 22 26 Ringworm 1 1 Flat Feet 62 82 Rickets 1 o Li Deformities 123 158 Tuberculosis 46 53 Speech 100 143 Vision and Squint 2,033 3,480 Hearing 30 37 Diabetes 4 4 Miscellaneous 86 112 Total 3,251 4,981 Note—Some of these cases are carried over from 1954 so that the totals do not coin¬ cide with those in the table at the end of the report ; the latter apply only to defects found during the year 1955. TREATMENT OF DEFECTS. Minor Ailments. School clinic sessions were held four times weekly at New Earswick, three times weekly at Whitby, twice weekly at Carlin How, Redcar, Thornaby, Grangetown, South Bank, Guisborough and Clifton Without, and once weekly at Lingdale, New Skelton, Easingwold and Saltburn. As well as being used for the supervision and treatment of relatively trivial conditions, the clinics provide suitable centres at which the school medical officers are available for consultation by parents or teachers. Special examinations of various kinds are carried out in the clinics which constitute, therefore, an important part of the school health service. Attendance at the clinics was somewhat reduced in 1955, a total of