View report page

89
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER
For the Year 1934.
(1) STAFF.
Although a list of the personnel of the staff is given in a separate page at the
beginning of the report, I would like to mention here some of those changes and
additions in staff which have taken place during the year and which the growth
of the service has made necessary.
The Authority having decided to increase the number of professional staff,
Dr. R. H. Clayton, formerly of Gateshead, was appointed as an Assistant Medical
Officer, on 29th May, 1934, and commenced duty on 15th July, 1934. Dr. E. A.
Whitney resigned her position as Assistant Medical Officer on 30th September,
1934, and Dr. C. B. McArthur was appointed in her place in December.
Mr. R. N. Hines, Assistant Dental Surgeon, resigned his post in December,
an advertisement for another Dental Surgeon being circulated in the usual channels.
Because of the increased amount of orthopaedic work it has been found
necessary to appoint a full-time Masseuse, in charge of the Remedial Clinic at
Faircross School.
The completion of the Dorothy Barley School late in 1933, and the building of
the Bifrons School, have added more departments for the care of your Medical
Officers.
(2) CO-ORDINATION.
The favourable measure of co-operation between the various medical activities
of the Corporation which you have already achieved has been maintained during
the year 1934. The majority of your staff have joint appointments and I hope that
as time and opportunity present themselves this principle will be extended. The
appointment of a Joint Clinics (Staffing) Sub-Committee is a step in the right
direction towards unification and co-operation and I hope that more and more
the whole of the medical services in the town will be unified.