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The marked reduction in the total number of tonsils and adenoids
done during 1932 will be noted. This reduction is mainly due to
the changed views which are becoming prevalent with regard to
question of tonsils and adenoids generally, and there is no doubt
that the more conservative view is the correct one. At the moment
of writing your Authority are considering representations from the
Board of Education as to the advisability of discontinuing the
present arrangements with the Walthamstow Dispensary where the
operations are done under out-patient conditions. The suggestion
of the Board is that these cases should be done at the Connaught
Hospital under In-patient conditions. The cases done at the
Isolation Hospital were virulent Diphtheria carriers, the result
being successful in each case. In addition, 80 other children
received diastolisation treatment at the clinic.
Tuberculosis.—Children suffering from actual and suspected
Tuberculosis are referred to Dr. Sorley, Tuberculosis Officer to the
Essex County Council, which Authority administers the Tuberculosis
Scheme in the Borough. The numbers of schoolchildren
examined during the year were 70 boys and 79 girls, of which 18
boys and 17 girls were referred by the School Medical Officer. Of
these, one boy was found to be suffering from glandular tuberculosis.
64 of the cases were sent by Private Practitioners and 50 were
examined as contacts.
Of the total of 149 school children examined, five were notified
as suffering from glandular tuberculosis, 3 as suffering from tuberculosis
of the bones and joints, and one child was found to be an
infectious pulmonary case. Dr. Sorley very kindly sent reports in
respect of each child seen. Recommendations for treatment were
carried out as far as possible and included the following:—Dental,
Tonsils and Adenoids, and Convalescent Home Treatment. Thirtyone
grants of free milk were also made.
At the end of the year, the live register of notified cases of school
age was as follows:—