Fifth annual report on the medical inspection of school children in Dunfermline, 1910 / by J.C. Bridge.

  • Bridge, J. C.
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[1910]
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Credit: Fifth annual report on the medical inspection of school children in Dunfermline, 1910 / by J.C. Bridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    those entrusted with the drawing of them up and with the examination necessary for obtaining information upon which these Reports are based, could at the end of the year feel that the knowledge so obtained enabled them to suggest some improvements which they con- sider might be for the betterment of the children of school age. The mere collection of figures is a trifle in connection with the work of Medical Inspection. Every School Inspector should form an ideal standard which it should be his object to attain. The modifica- ton of this ideal, for better or for worse, depends partly upon himself and partly upon his environment. Recommendations to Boards and others are too often considered by these authorities as personal matters, and as reflecting either on the previous management of that authority, or as a mere whim of the person recom- mending the improvement. It is sometimes, therefore, no easy matter for the Medical Inspector to keep his ideal as high as it should be kept. The support which I have hitherto received encourages me to lay before you fresh schemes, which will be found outlined in the following pages, and which I believe will receive your careful consideration. In the following Report reference will, unfortun- ately, frequently have to be made to delicate children. Some of them will be considered as suffering from special defects—tubercular disease of bones and joints and other organs, anaemia, etc. There are, however, a considerable number without any condition which can be classified under any particular heading, except that of bad nutrition, who, nevertheless, are below the average standard of growth. This, in the absence of any definite signs, points to imperfect development, either on account of the quantity or quality of the food