[Report 1954] / School Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council, Scarborough Divisional Executive.

  • North Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council (Scarborough Divisional Executive)
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / School Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council, Scarborough Divisional Executive. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Consultant advice and treatment is provided to school children by! specialists in the employ of the regional hospital boards. The arrangement; whereby Dr. F. Fleming, a registrar otologist, sees school children suffering i from defects of the ear, nose, and throat, at clinic sessions held each month at Redcar, Guisborough, Thornaby, and South Bank, proved a valuable supple¬ ment to the work of the nurse who carries out the audiometric survey in the schools. The consultant ophthalmologists by their continued co-operation) have given expert advice to children suffering from eye defects without delay, i and psychiatrists both in the north and south of the Riding have been most helpful. Owing to the other demands made on them, however, the help which i they were able to give to the work of the child guidance team was strictly! limited. Fortunately this question was receiving active consideration at the end of the year under review from both hospital boards concerned. || In the area of the Leeds board a psychiatrist was available for one session: each week in York and Scarborough alternatively. In the north of the Riding, i pending provision being made by the Newcastle board, the Committee employed on a sessional basis, Dr. Hinds, a consulting psychiatrist in privates practice, who conducted clinics at Northallerton and Normanby in alternate!; weeks. Quite apart from psychiatric advice the child guidance team I has also been faced with the difficulty of obtaining the services of a suitably t qualified person to act as a psychiatric social worker. During the last quarter :l of the year Miss E. Clayton a qualified psychologist, undertook this social i work on behalf of the Committee. The provision of speech therapy for school children in the Riding ; received a set back as the result of the resignation of Miss Glover during; August : she worked in the southern part of the Riding and was based on York. Unfortunately it has not yet been possible to replace her. Miss A. Shaw had been previously appointed to assist Miss Knight with the large volume of work on Tees-side. As a result of the deep interest taken in the children by all concerned! at Welburn Hall and Brompton Hall, the physically handicapped and educa¬ tionally sub-normal pupils derived great benefit from their residence at these: two special schools. A feature of the work at Welburn Hall has been the! application of cardiac surgery to children with congenital lesions of the heart.: My thanks are due to Mr. P. R. Allison and his staff at Leeds General: Infirmary for the great improvement in the health of the children whom they j have treated. It is hoped that this good work will not stop when Mr. Allison : commences duty as Nuffield Professor of Surgery at Oxford. The general health of children attending all North Riding schools was well maintained during 1954, and with minor reservations, the school medical j officers were very well pleased with the health of the children inspected. An ! increased number of children was classified as good as regards general nutrition ; consequently a smaller number of children were regarded as fair.”