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RHEUMATISM CLINIC 1941
Number of sessions 24
" " attendances 278
" " new cases 81
" " old cases 197
discharged 58
" still under treatment 86
" of new cases with rheumatic or cardiac defect 5
" referred to hospital as In-patient -
" " " " " Out-patient 14
" " for tonsils and adenoids operation 14
" " " dental treatment 7
" " to Physically Defective Centre 1
excluded from school 4
" " half time school 1
" " from games and exercises 5
" to begin games and exercises 3
" seen after scarlet fever 2
" seen after Diphtheria 3
" referred for convalescent home treatment 15
sent away 15
" referred to Open Air School 1
(j) Tuberculosis. The number of school children examined during
the year was boys 44 and girls 45, of which 4 boys and 9 girls
were referred by the school medical staff. 16 of the cases were
sent by private practitioners, end 60 were examined as contacts.
At the end of the year the live register of notified cases of
school age was - Pulmonary 21, Non-pulmonary 30.
(k) Artificial Sunlight Treatment. as for 1940.
8. INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Notification in the 5-15 years age group during 194}. was as
follows (1940 cases, shown in parenthesis) - scarlet fever 62 (49)
diphtheria 17 (6), Pneumonia ]6 (4), erysipelas 1 (nil), cerebro
spinal meningitis 5(2), measles 611 (28), whooping cough 171 (4).
The last two named diseases were made notifiable in October 1939.
Among the cases discovered by the medical staff and included
above were scarlet fever 1, non-clinical diphtheria 1.
Non-notifiable infectious diseases is chiefly brought to light
by the weekly returns made by Head Teachers under the local
"Regulations as to Infectious Diseases in Schools."
The monthly figures were as follows:-
Sore
Throat
Measles
Whooping
Cough
Mumps
Chicken
Pox
Ringworm
& Scabies
Impetigo
Sores etc
January
-
75
-
7
8
1
-
February
-
30
15
-
1
-
1
March
-
20
1
4
-
-
3
Apri1
-
240
3
1
5
-
1 .
May
2
347
50
6
1
3
3
June
—
76
62
-
3
-
2
July
—
4
61
-
—
1
1
August
-
-
-
-
-
-
September
1
-
50
1
1
1
5
October
-
1
51
1
-
-
2
November
-
-
47
9
-
-
2
December
-
—
26
-
2
8
2
Total
3
793
366
29
21
14
22
The following are the weekly average numbers of children away
from school owing to exclusions and the non-notifiable infectious
11.