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TH3 HEALTH VISITOR IN THE SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE
1,698 School Medical Sessions (including B.C.G. sessions) were carried
out during 1969. These were prepared, and in the Infant and Junior Schools,
attended by Health Visitors.
29,954 individual school children have been examined at hygiene inspections,
necessitating home visits to the parents of 112 to advise them of treatment for
infested heads, a decline of 65 from 1968.
308 children were treated for minor ailments involving 1,397 treatments
of which 835 were for conditions of the skin.
A series of Health Education talks have been given in five senior schools,
and the Health Visitor is often asked to contribute one or two in a series of
sessions in Courses for school leavers. Visits to some of the Clinics have
also been arranged for school leavers and the Services explained.
DENTAL SERVICES
Mrs. C.M. Lindsay, Principal School Dental Officer.
The complement of dental staff comprising five full time and five part
time Dental Officers, has been fully maintained although there has been a
change in the part time dental staff.
Despite an increase in the incidence of sick leave of both dental and
nursing staff, the output of work has not decreased. There has in fact been
an increase in some branches of the conservative work and almost all the maintained
schools in the Borough have received dental inspections within the year.
There is always a minimum of 500 orthodontic cases undergoing treatment.
This year 160 new cases were undertaken and 132 cases successfully completed.
This eminently satisfying branch of the dental department is much appreciated
by the parents of the children treated.
There is still a large incidence of caries in the infant schools especially
in the new entrants and a great need for increased Dental Health Education is
desirable.
The Chief Dental Officer thanks all the Head Teachers for their help and
co-operation to the Dental department.
The Dental staff gratefully acknowledge the excellent work done by Dr. Morris
and Dr. Miller in administering dental anaesthetics at the Clinics.
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