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on 1st January, 1908.)
(Horse drawn ambulance provided for cases of accident and
acute disease. The payment for its use was assessed according to
means with a maximum charge of £1.)"
1909
" Staff
Dr. Fenton, owing to increased work due to recent legislative
changes, gave up his appointment on 1st August, 1909. and was
succeeded by Dr. Bygott, ' who does not engage in private practice.'
The appointment of School Nurse was vacant during the yearduties
of this office were discharged by Miss Webster (a certified
Sanitary Inspector and Midwife) from the Isolation Hospital as a
volunteer from 14th August to 1st December, when she received the
usual salary."
" School Medical Inspection
1,258 (entrants and leavers only) were examined.
1,197 defects required treatment:
Nutrition accounted for 15.7%, Rickets 3%
In addition—Defective clothing = 7%
Verminous heads — 13%
Dirty bodies = 5%
42% were found to have sound teeth.
.... In many instances more than one defect was present in
the same child.
Weights, as a rule, seemed rather below the averages for the rest
of the country."
" Infectious Diseases
The greater number of Scarlet Fever cases is unfortunate-it
is probably accounted for by the mildness of the disease as in 6 cases
the children were found in school who had evidently been mixing
freely with others for two or three weeks whilst suffering from this
disease....
Several of the diphtheria cases had no treatment in the early
stages of the disease and were sent to the hospital in a dying condition
.... Tracheotomy was performed in eight cases with a mortality
of 4 ... .
It is to be regretted that such serious diseases as Measles and
Whooping Cough should be, in most cases, treated entirely without
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