[Report 1919] / School Medical Officer of Health, Stockport County Borough.

  • Stockport (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1919
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    INFECTIOUS DESEASES, Cases of non-notifiable Infectious Diseases are reported by the teachers and school attendance officers to the Health Department, and visits are made fco the homes by the Female Sanitary Inspectors. Handbills and leaflets of instruction are left, and any cases of overcrowding, neglect, sanitary defects, &c., are reported to the Medical Officer of Health. Each school is provided with a “Teachers’ Guide to Infectious Diseases/' SCHOOL CLOSURE DURING THE YEAR. School. Period of Closure. From. To. • Cause of Closure. Edgelev R.C. (Infants’ Depart¬ ment). November November 10th. 21st. Minor infectious illness. Parish Church (Infants’ Depart¬ ment). November December 19th. 2nd. Minor infectious illness. St. Matthew’s (Infants’ Depart¬ ment). December January loth. 5th, 1920. Minor infectious illness. Stockport Pv. C. (Infants’, Boys’ and Girls’ Senior Depart¬ ments). s March April 26th. * 6th. Absence of heating due to breakdown of boiler. PROVISION OF MEALS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN. The average number of children provided with meals each week during the vear has been 37'4. In 1918 the number was 78'5. There are two centres only in use—Queen Street West Mission Rooms and Charlesworth Street Cookery Centre. Meals are cooked at both places and the children attend for breakfast and dinner five days a week, on Saturdays for dinner only. Meals are provided during the school holidays, save on public holidays, when the catering staff are away. The breakfast consists of 2ozs. bread, with jam, margarine or treacle, preceded on one morning by cocoa, and on four mornings by porridge served with treacle or milk. The milk allowance i3 l/3rd pint per head per day. Meat (Uozs. per head per day) or fish (3ozs. per head per day), with potatoes and a pudding are served each day for dinner. 1919 1918 1917 Cost of food per meal. 2'61d. 2'66d. T7d. Cost of administration per meal. T83d. T92d. Tod. 40,213 meals have been provided during the year. Copies of regulations and suggestions on the conduct of Feeding Centres are supplied to the various Centres. It is satisfactory to note that the manners of the children have definitely improved. Complete co-ordination exists between the work of provision of meals and that of the School Medical Service,