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investigation special visits are made and any necessary investigations carried out, including
the taking of specimens for bacteriological examination, to ascertain the sources of,and
contain, the outbreak.
Notifications were received of 1,051 children so absent, german measles being the reason
for the largest number viz. 275.
ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE IN SCHOOLS
Each school in the Borough is visited annually by public health inspectors for environmental
hygiene inspection and results of their findings are reported to the Medical Adviser of the
Inner London Education Authority.
Visits were also made to schools by public health inspectors in connection with enquiries
and investigations concerning infectious diseases.
MINOR AILMENTS CLINICS
Children suffering from minor ailments may be referred to minor ailments clinics where
they are seen by a nurse and/or doctor and the appropriate treatment given. There are 8 such
clinics situated in school treatment centres in the borough. Use of these clinics is gradually
declining, although attendances this year totalled 20,967 compared with 19,246 last year.
VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION RECORDS OF SCHOOLCHILDREN,
The percentage of school-children on school rolls immunised and vaccinated is as follows:Diphtheria
Tetanus Poliomyelitis Smallpox
82.8 *58.4 82.2 54.1
*Children generally speaking only given opportunity during late 1950's.
B.C.G. VACCINATION
The arrangements continued during the year for vaccinating 13-year old schoolchildren
against tuberculosis using B.C.G. 1,681 children being vaccinated.
PART TIME EMPLOYMENT OF SCHOOLCHILDREN
It is a requirement of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933/Education Act 1944, where
children wish to take up part-time employment such as delivering newspapers, etc., that they
be medically examined to ensure they are fit for the proposed employment. Children numbering
220 were examined for this purpose during the year, all being found fit for the employment
proposed.
SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE
The Principal School Dental Officer, Mr. D.F. Waller reports as follows:"The
expansion and rational development of the dental services provided for the
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