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ANTI-DIPHTHERIA PRECAUTIONS. ACCESSIBILITY TO CLASS REGISTERS AND MEDICAL RECORDS
In the event of an out-break of diphtheria, emergency swabbing must be carried out on all
known contacts. When schools are in session, this is normally done in the schools with special
arrangements for absentees. During the holidays it is vital that school medical staff are able
to trace contacts speedily. Arrangements were made for class registers to be collected and
placed in the same room as the children's medical records before any holiday of a week's
duration or more. The school keeper and the Divisional Education Officer were to be informed
where registers and records were to be found.
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B.C.G. VACCINATION
Twenty-one secondary schools in the Borough were visited and 1,752 school children were
Mantoux tested, 1,521 of these children were given B.C.G. vaccination. 100 children were
found to have positive reactions and were referred to Chest Clinics. 89 children were X-rayed
and of these 5 were found to need treatment and 38 were kept under supervision by the Chest
Physician.
TUBERCULOSIS INCIDENTS
During 1968, notifications were received that five schoolchildren in Islington (three
boys and two girls) were suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. A sixth notification was
that of a member of school staff teaching in Islington. Six different schools were involved.
Following investigation of the school contacts one child was found to be suffering from
tuberculosis, and 24 required supervision by the Chest Physician.
HYGIENE AND SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS IN SCHOOLS
Arrangements were made for the school medical officer of each school to walk round the
school with the head teacher or deputy once during the year to report on the sanitary
conditions there and to see if they met the regulations laid down by the Department of
Education and Science.
Where defects were found the Education Officer was notified in order that they might be
rectified wherever possible.
PRIOR WESTON SCHOOL
This new school, which will eventually have 280 Junior Mixed and Infant children, opened
on the 9th September 1968 in the Golden Lane Estate, Whitecross Street, E.C.I.
RESEARCH BY TOE EDUCATION RESEARCH UNIT OF THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY
Research facilities were offered to the Institute of Research Psychiatry to study the
behaviour of the children of alcoholic parents who were patients of the Maudesley hospital.
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