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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hornsey 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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The Juvenile Employment Bureau is housed at Topsfielcl
Parade in the same building as the School Clinic. The medical
records are available for consultation by the Juvenile Employment
Officer and any special examination required is carried out at the
School Clinic.
SPECIAL ENQUIRIES.
At the suggestion of Professor W. W. Jameson, Dr. Crowden,
Lecturer in Physiology at the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine, conducted an investigation into the incidence
of loss of hearing by means of the audiometer. This investigation
will be the subject of a special report later.
MISCELLANEOUS.
All teachers taken on the staff are medically examined by
the School Medical Officer, who also examines and reports on
scholarship children when any question arises as to fitness on
grounds of health to undertake secondary education.