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12. PROVISION OF SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICES FOR SECONDARY and
TECHNICAL SCHOLARS IN THE AREA.
The scheme whereby you carry out the medical examinations
for the Essex County Council in connection with the
Barking Abbey School and the Day School of the South-East
Essex Technical College, was discontinued at the outbreak
of the war, as these Schools were evacuated.
The school medical inspection records of these
children have very largely been transferred to the Reception
Areas.
13. SPECIAL SCHOOLS.
On the 1st September, 1939, parties left Faircross
School by buses for adapted holiday camps. Of the
Physically Defective Children attending school in July, 1939,
49% were evacuated and of the Mentally Defective children
53% were evacuated. In November 1939 the Physically
Defective Children were moved to an L.C.C. School Camp.
The Faircross School was not re-opened for special
children during the year.
14. UNCLEANLINESS.
Routine cleanliness inspections were carried out by
Health Visitors & School Nurses during the year, until the
closing of the schools for evacuation.
In spite of the efforts which have been made in
regard to housing accommodation, invigilation and treatment
there still remains approximately five per cent of the normal
school population in Barking who are found unclean.
Although no special complaints have been received
in respect of Barking children, many Reception Areas have
registered the fact that many children sent to their areas,
under the Government Evacuation Scheme, were found to be
unclean.
We must, in these days of war, ensure that everything
possible is done to ensure the maintenance of the good
health of our children, and every effort will be made to see
that the number of children found unclean is reduced.
Although school cleanliness inspections must of
necessity cease until the schools re-open, the Health
Visitors & School Nurses are ever watchful for cases of
uncleanliness, during their following-up work, and cases
are being sent to the Clinics for appropriate treatment,
where this cannot, or will not be, given by the parents
themselves.
15. STATISTICS.
The Statistical Tables required by the Board of
Education have been completed and despatched. The Board
have specially suggested that these Tables should not be
reproduced in this Report, in view of the present urgent
need for economy in the use of paper.
For the same reason I have abstained from giving
the usual mass of statistics on the work of the School
Medical Services during 1939, but the bulk of these
statistics are available in the office for any member of the
Committee to study, should he or she wish to do so.
In the interests of further economy, this Report
appears in a new guise on this occasion.
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