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Sixteen new cases were added to the deaf register during the year, the register now
totalling 192.
EDUCATIONALLY SUBNORMAL CHILDREN
The Education Act 1944 makes provision (a) for the statutory examination of children who
may require special educational treatment and (b) as amended by the Mental Health Act 1959 for
the examination of children who are deemed to be unsuitable for education at school, and for
review examinations of such children.
Children examined for these purposes during the year by specially qualified medical
officers numbered 150.
There are three schools in the borough for the education of these children who are
medically examined each year.
VISION
During the year vision tests were carried out on 10,350 schoolchildren.
HEALTH EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS
At the beginning of this year an overall health education syllabus was drawn up and later
offered firstly to schools in which invitations to work had been accepted, and then to all others
who made enquiries for information, visual aids, etc.
In these schools also, health education has been included as a subject in its own right on
the timetables during the year, and the health education team can now work to achieve the wider
and more even spread of information on health education topics which would appear to be socially
necessary and justifiable from the point of view of prevention of disease in this area.
It is felt that a greater interest in health education in schools which draw from
catchment are as already visited by individual staff members would pay dividends towards the
success of their future preventive work and it is hoped that this may yet receive consideration
as a valuable aspect.
The following subjects were dealt with at schools during the year:-
Subject Occasions No. Participating
General Health Topics 1,410 22,676
Mothercraft and Mental Health
Sex Education and Veneral Disease 46 993
INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN SCHOOLS
Notification is made by head teachers of pupils absent from school on account of infectious
and other illnesses. Where the notifications from any particular school warrant further
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