[Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Northampton County Borough.

FOLLOWING-UP Visits paid to primary, secondary, and special schools by doctors and nurses to follow up children found defective at medical inspection ... __ _ HO Visits to homes : — By doctors .... g By nurses ..... 224 Re-examinations made by doctors ... 4,351 In addition, the school nurses during 76 visits to schools made 1,185 other examinations for:— (a) weighing and measuring infants prior to medical inspection; {b) examination of new entrants prior to admission to school; (■c) following-up children for medical officers after re-examination. EAR NOSE AND THROAT CLINIC 273 children (all from primary and secondary schools) were operated upon for tonsils and adenoids during 1960. The figure for 1959 was 192. See Table R., Part III., on page 91. A children’s ear nose and throat clinic is held at Northampton General Hospital. At the request of the Principal Medical Officer of the Ministry of Education, the School Medical Officers at the periodic medical inspections recorded the children who had undergone tonsillectomy any time previously and the following tabulation shews the findings * Groups Inspected Number of Children Inspected \ . ........ Number of Children who have had Tonsillectomy Percentage of Children who have had Tonsillectomy Boys Girls Totals Boys Girls Totals Boys Girls Totals Entrants ............ 680 613 1,293 56 26 82 8-2 4-2 6*3 Second Age Group 791 761 1,552 177 146 323 22-4 19-2 20*8 Leavers ... 797 728 1,525 222 209 431 27*9 28*7 28*3 fOther Periodic Inspections 292 308 600 90 85 175 30*8 27-6 29*2 * Does not include Nursery Schools. f Special Schools (Open Air and Northgate)--all children examined every two years. Grammar Schools for Boys and Girls and Technical High School (11 years plus). Fifteen year olds who are not leavers.