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Report of the School Medical
Officer.
In accordance with the suggestions contained in Form 6M
issued by the Board of Education, much of the subject matter
of this Report, having been included in previous reports, is not
repeated; reference is made to items which have in previous
years received full consideration.
Co-ordination.
Achievement of this is sufficiently important to repeat that
as your Medical Officer of Health is also School Medical Officer,
it is ensured that there is no overlapping between the two
Departments. All information as to the incidence of infectious
diseases is immediately available for the use of the
Assistant School Medical Officer and the School Nurses, and
vice versa, infectious diseases discovered through absences from
school, and which are not notifiable, are transmitted to the
Health Department for following up, thereby ensuring that
such outbreaks are controlled.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION
TO PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
School Hygiene.
Under the Authority of the Erith Education Committee
there are 8 provided schools with 19 departments, and one
non-provided school with one department.
At the end of 1937, there were 4,982 children on the roll
of the elementary schools, distributed as follows:—
Infant Schools 1411
Junior Mixed and Infant Schools 41
Junior Schools 1711
Mixed with Infants 155
Senior Schools 1664
Special Schools (Outside the District) 19
Some change has taken place since my last report, in the
dispensation of the schools and departments at Belvedere. The
All Saints' School has now been entirely closed.
At Bedonwell Hill, two departments, a Junior Mixed for
292, and an Infants department for 240 children have been
opened but extensions are already necessary and four additional
class rooms are in course of erection.