View report page

96
A "screening" patch test was performed on all children whose
parents gave consent at both schools; those children found positive
were given a further test; 302 children at the grammar school and 180
at the primary school were so tested. As a result of these procedures
23 of the girls at the grammar school were found to require x-ray.
Each was chest x-rayed and nothing abnormal found; 19 of the teaching
staff and seven of the school meals and domestic staff were x-rayed
and found to have nothing abnormal.
(ii) A secondary grammar school in Tottenham
A case of pulmonary tuberculosis in a girl at this school was picked
up on the Mass Radiography Survey which took place in Tottenham
during January. As 190 of the 203 girls over 14 years of age had visited
the unit and the only abnormality was this case, in agreement with
the Chest Physician it was decided that patch testing would not be
necessary. However, 20 teachers who had not attended the mass radiography
unit were x-rayed as well as the entire school meals staff of
ten persons. All these x-rays were within normal limits.
(III) A primary school in Tottenham
Following a case of pulmonary tuberculosis in a ten-year-old girl
at this school, 428 children were patch tested, of whom nine were
positive. Three of these children were already known to the Chest
Clinic. The other six attended the clinic for x-rays and mantoux test.
All the chest x-rays were normal, but three children are being kept under
observation at the clinic; 19 teaching and kitchen staff attended for
chest x-ray and all were normal.
(iv) A secondary grammar school in Hornsey
A 14-year-old girl at this school was notified as suffering from
pulmonary tuberculosis; 420 pupils were patch tested, of whom 13
were positive. One of these left the district and the other 12 had chest
x-rays at the Chest Clinic. All were within normal limits; 15 teachers
and eight domestic staff had chest x-rays and all were negative.
In addition it was thought advisable, as the case was an infectious
one, that all her classmates should be mantoux tested. These 31 girls
were invited to attend the Finchley Chest Clinic, and 17 attended, of
whom two were "mantoux positive". These two girls were x-rayed,
with normal results.
(v) A secondary modern school in Hornsey
A teacher at this school contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and
investigations at the school were undertaken at the end of the summer
term; 188 girls were skin tested and as a result 49 of them were found
to be positive. All but one of these girls (whose parents refused) and
21 of the teaching and domestic staff were x-rayed and all were negative.