[Report 1952] / School Medical Officer of Health, Southampton County Borough.

  • Southampton (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / School Medical Officer of Health, Southampton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee. Ladies and Gentlemen, As Medical Officer to the Education Committee, I have the honour to submit my twenty-second Annual Report. This document is the forty-fifth in the series which deals with the work of medical inspection, treatment, and the physical condition of children attending schools within the County Borough of Southampton. I am pleased to report again this year that all primary and secondary modern schools (with the exception of Bitterne Park) were visited by the Assistant School Medical Officers. War damage repairs prevented arrangements being made for a visit to Bitterne Park Secondary (Modern) School. Medical inspections were also carried out at the Grammar School for Girls, Itchen Grammar School, King Edward VI Grammar School, St. Anne’s Grammar School, and Taunton’s School. The Atherley School also received medical inspection, this being arranged at the request of the school authorities. The total number of children to receive routine in¬ spections during the year was 8,924. Head teachers were also j encouraged to present for examination children who were thought to I be in need of medical advice, but who were outside the prescribed age groups. Arrangements were made to re-inspect those children 1 who were found at routine examination to be requiring treatment j or to be kept under observation. The procedure for the routine cleanliness examinations remains unchanged. At the commencement of each term, health visitors visit all schools to examine children in attendance. During the year 80,788 examinations were carried out and 598 cleansing notices were issued. Detailed statistics relating to this branch of the work will be found on page 10. Children found infested are excluded from school for twenty-four hours, and the parents are given written advice as regards the correct method to remedy the condition. Instructions are also given to the effect that children must attend the school clinic for final inspection. The number of remedial centres established at schools is 21, ; including the five at the grammar schools. The work of these centres [ is supervised by the lady Physical Training Organiser whose report is printed on page 28. Pre-school children attending the day nurseries received medical i) examinations at intervals of approximately four months ; children «'l' found with defective conditions were referred either to their own ![ private practitioner or to the respective clinic.