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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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The following table shows the position with regard to the notification of tuberculosis amongst schoolchildren during 1938, and also the number removed from the " register " during this period :—
| Notified during 1938 (including transfers) | Pulmonary | 9 |
| Non-Pulmonary | 10 | |
| Total | 19 | |
| Removed from Register during 1938 | Pulmonary | 3 |
| Non-Pulmonary | 10 | |
| Total | 13 |
(1) Other Defects and Diseases.—A few cases of other
defects and diseases, not included in the above, were
also seen at school medical inspection.
(6) FOLLOWING-UP.
A summary of the following-up work by your School Nurses is given herewith :—
| Number of visits to schools re medical inspection | 623 | ||||
| Total number of visits to schools | 827 | ||||
| Number of home visits in connection with :— | |||||
| 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | |
| (a) Routine medical inspections | 6,786 | 5,605 | 3,731 | 2,951 | 2,574 |
| (b) Cleanliness inspections | 827 | 454 | 326 | 315 | 290 |
| 1,022 | 475 | 955 | 644 | 1,017 | |
| (d) Non-attendance for treatment at Minor Ailments Clinics, etc. | 51 | 33 | 10 | 42 | 44 |
| 292 | 298 | 204 | |||
| (f) Miscellaneous | 418 | 216 | 125 | 396 | 215 |
I have previously emphasised the following-up
system, which not only concerns your school medical
service, but also your hospitals and other medical
services, etc., and it is interesting to note that each
year the number of cases requiring following-up after
routine medical inspection is steadily getting less—
the inference being there are less conditions requiring