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4
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER
For the Year 1927.
(I) STAFF.
The year 1927 has seen changes in the staff of the Public
Health and School Medical Services. Dr. Kerr Simpson resigned in
July-, 1927, and your present School Medical Officer took up his
duties towards the end of September.
Mr. W. Y. F. Dawe, Dental Surgeon, resigned on 30th September,
1927, and Mr. H. S. Smyth was appointed to fill the
vacancy caused by this resignation, taking up his duties on the
17th October.
Of the clerical staff, Miss A. Shaw resigned 011 the 10th December
and Miss B. Ingham 011 the 23rd July. The vacancy caused by the
resignation of Miss Ingham was filled by the appointment of Miss H.
Nunn on the 2nd August, and the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Miss Shaw was tilled by advancing Miss Shead to the vacancy,
and the clerical staff brought up to its present strength by the
appointment of Miss H. King early in 1928.
The present amount of clerical work has been found a great
strain on the staff, and takes more than the ordinary working
hours of the present clerical staff.
(2) CO-ORDINATION.
(a) Infant and Child Welfare.—The Council as the Local
Sanitary Authority and the Council as the Local Education
Authority have co-ordinated their public health services in so far