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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Barking 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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The following table shows the position with regard to notification of Tuberculosis amongst children of school age during 1933:—
| Notified during 1933 (including transfers) | Pulmonary | 8 |
| Non-Pulmonary | 12 | |
| Total | 20 | |
| De-notified (of the above) | Pulmonary | 3 (1 death) |
| Non-pulmonary | — | |
| Total | 3 |
(k) Other Defects and Diseases.—A few cases of other defects and diseases, not
included in the above, were also seen at school medical inspection, e.g., some children
were found to be suffering from kidney trouble and one or two from deficiency in the
activity of the glands of the body.
(6) FOLLOWING UP.
The School Nurse who attends the routine medical inspection also carries out the
following up work arising from the inspection. The parents are visited in their homes,
and the attention of the parents is drawn to the need for treatment, and parents who were
not able to be present at the medical inspection are interviewed at home by the School
Nurse, who emphasises the necessity for having treatment and advises them in what
way the treatment may be obtained.
A summary of the following up work undertaken by your School Nurses is given herewith:—
| Number of visits to schools re medical inspection | 520 | ||||
| Total number of visits to schools | 653 | ||||
| Number of home visits in connection with:— | |||||
| 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | |
| (a) Routine medical inspections | 3,549 | 4,759 | 4,480 | 4,817 | 6,610 |
| (b) Infectious disease | 520 | 660 | 295 | 408 | 230 |
| (c) Uncleanliness inspections | 80 | 119 | 181 | 119 | 284 |
| (d) Non-attendance for treatment (Minor Ailments, etc.) | 124 | 406 | 86 | 82 | 35 |
| (e) Dental inspections | 460 | 406 | 477 | 1,082 | — |
| (f) Miscellaneous | — | — | — | — | 126 |