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B.C.G, VACCINATION
The arrangements continued during the year for vaccinating 13 year old schoolchildren
against tuberculosis using B.C.G., 1,382 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. All children examined for this purpose during the year were
found fit for the employment proposed.
DEAF AND PARTIALLY-HEARING CHILDREN
Children under 5 suspected of hearing loss are tested by health visitors at
health centres. School children are normally tested during their first year at
school. Where such loss is confirmed or there is any doubt, the child is referred
to an audiology clinic and seen by a specialist and a teacher of the deaf. Action
taken includes referral to hospital for treatment or for the issue of a hearing-aid,
to schools for the deaf or partially-hearing, or the child remains under observation
where the loss is slight. There are no special schools for this defect in the borough,
children having to go to school either in Hackney, Islington, Camden or Wandsworth.
Eleven new cases were added to the deaf register during the year, the regi
ster now totalling 144.
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 204.
There are three schools in the borough for the education of these children who
are medically examined each year.
HEALTH EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS
Continued liaison with schools is giving good results. Teaching staff show
more interest in the work of the Health Department and appreciate the need for health
education.
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