[Report 1963] / School Medical Officer of Health, Warrington County Borough.

  • Warrington (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1963
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Credit: [Report 1963] / School Medical Officer of Health, Warrington County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE SERVICE The service continued to operate on the same lines as in the previous year and selective medical inspection has continued to prove satis¬ factory. The service aims primarily at the ascertainment of handicaps and recommending appropriate educational treatment most suited to the child. The attachment of a school medical officer to specified schools with periodic informal visiting has continued. The co-operation between all branches of the National Health Service has remained excellent and I am very grateful for the ready co-operation received from general practitioners and hospital staff. MEDICAL INSPECTION The system of inspecting routinely only entrants and leavers was continued, the gap between being covered by the visits of school medical officers to the schools to which they are attached. The statistics of medical inspection are contained in Table ‘A' and ‘ B ' of Parts I and II of the Appendix. Special medical examinations were carried out at the request of teachers, school nurses, parents and other bodies when children were suspected of needing medical or other educational treatment. Special examinations were also carried out on 266 children to ascertain their fitness for employment and 1 was found to be unfit. The following tables give the average heights and weights of the 6 year old group covering a period of 54 years, and the average heights of the 14 year old group for the past 15 years. It will be seen that there has been a marked increase in the height and weight in most groups over the period reviewed, which reflects the manner in which the social circumstances of the population have improved in the last half century and 15 years respectively.