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All students are strongly advised to register with a General Practitioner on entry
to the College.
Health Education
The programme of teaching sessions in Schools arranged at the request of head
teachers was continued. Nursing staff covered health education subjects included in
courses to C.S.E. level, as members of the teaching team. The closer liaison between
heads of departments in senior schools; the nursing staff and Health Education Section
continued.
Talks given by Health Visitors and School Nurses included the following subjects:—
Parent Craft
Child Development
Ante-natal and child care
Environmental Health and Social Services
Sex education
Family planning
Venereal diseases
Nutrition for the family
Food hygiene
Infectious diseases and immunisation
Personal hygiene
General health
First aid
Smoking, drugs and alcoholism.
The Health Education Programmes arranged at five centres during August were
most successful. 1,715 children saw films selected to illustrate a health or safety theme
in terms of interest to young children, supplemented by short talks, group exercises
and competitions on the theme for the week.
Screening of Schoolchildren s urine for the early detection of Urinary Tract Infection
During 1971 the school health services of Southwark and Lambeth co-operated
with King's College Hospital in a survey on the early detection of renal disease. As the
incidence of renal disease in boys is much lower than in girls the research was concentrated
on school girls. In Southwark 4 primary and 3 secondary schools were asked to
take part.
Parents who agreed to allow their daughters to participate were asked to complete
a simple medical questionnaire. A urine specimen was then obtained during
school medical inspection and this was tested at the hospital laboratory. In all cases
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