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SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE
Introduction
During the year, every effort has been made administratively by the School Health Service
to increase the degree of co-ordination of the services available to handicapped children and
other children in the Borough. This co-operation with other services and Departments of the
Authority resulting in greater demands on the School Health Service has only been limited by
the need to maintain and improve the efficiency of the School Health Services itself. In this
respect, the Assistant Medical Officers, Health Visitors/School Nurses, Clinic Nurses,
Administrative Officers and Clinic Clerks all continue to play their part.
School Population
Once agam there has been an overall increase in the school population for the Borough
and the following table shows the position at 31st December, 1967:-
Schools No. of Pupils
90 Primary Schools 23,166
19 Secondary Modern Schools 10,119
14 Grammar Schools 7,745
1 Residential Special
School (E.S.N.) 177
2 Day Special Schools
(E.S.N.) 243
41,450
Periodic Medical Inspections
Under the provisions of the Education Act it is the duty of every local education authority to
provide for the medical inspection, at appropriate intervals, of pupils in attendance at
schools maintained by them, and the authority may require the parent of any pupil in
attendance at any such school, to submit the pupil for medical inspection in accordance
with arrangements made by the authority. Although the Act thus provides a legal obligation
on the parent to submit the child for e xamination, the parent has the right, should he so
desire, to refuse treatment or obtain such treatment where he so wishes,
This Authority's policy for the routine medical inspection of school entrants and
leavers together with an intermediate examination during the last year at the primary
•school has been continued through 1967.
The following table shows the number of children inspected by years of birth and the
state of their physical condition:-
121