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admission to Teacher Training Colleges, and also from the
requirement of the Department of Education and Science that
teachers taking up their first teaching appointment should be
medically examined.
The statistical details for the year are given below:
Total number of Health Declaration Forms
received 1,275
No. of recommendations without medical
examination 1,024
No. of medical examinations carried out
(a) For admission to Superannuation
Scheme 251
(b) Training College Candidates 398
(c) Teachers' first appointments 78
(d) Premature retirement or prolonged
sick leave 50
(e) For other Authorities 8
(f) For West Kent Main Sewerage
Board 16
801
Candidates examined for this Borough by other
Authorities 2
HOME HELP SERVICE
The Health Services and Public Health Act, 1968, now
makes the provision of Home Help mandatory. Part 1, Section
13, states: "It shall be the duty of every local Health Authority
to provide on such a scale as is adequate for the needs of their
area, or to arrange for the provision on such a scale as is so
adequate, of home help for households where such help is
required owing to the presence of a person who is suffering from
illness, lying-in, and expectant mother, aged, handicapped as a
result of having suffered from an illness or by congenital deformity,
or a child who has not attained the age which, for the purposes
of the Education Act, 1944, is, in his case, the upper limit
of the compulsory school age, and every such Authority shall
have power to provide or arrange for the provision of laundry
facilities for households for which the Home Help is being, or
can be provided under this sub-section. A local Health Authority
may, with the approval of the Minister, recover from persons