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121
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER
For the Year 1930.
(1) STAFF.
The staff responsible for the school medical services
carried out by the Council is shown on a separate page at the
beginning of this report.
The increase in staff is due to the increased duties which have
fallen upon the department.
(2) CO-ORDINATION.
You have achieved a very real measure of co-ordination
between the various public medical services administered by the
Council, but there must of necessity be some difficulty in maintaining
these services at maximum efficiency so long as the
responsibility for running them is shared by two important
Committees of the Council.
(3) SCHOOL HYGIENE.
The fact that you have a building programme of approximately
£400,000 gives you a glorious opportunity in these new schools of
giving sanitary circumstances the attention to which they are
entitled, and which they certainly did not receive when the old
schools were being built.
The background of a child's school life is the permanent screen
on which he or she will focus the later environment in the factory,
in the workshop and in the home, and the silent lesson of hygienic
circumstances at school is the most precious thing a child will
ever receive from school life.
I trust that no one will be prepared to carry out over-crowding
in these schools. This may minimise cost; it will be prodigal
extravagance.,