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COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON.
ANNUAL REPORT.
OF THE
SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER.
For the Year Ending December 31st, 1924.
GENERAL.
The records set out in the following report will show that the
year has been one of marked activity in regard to the school
medical service.
The first stage of the extended dental scheme approved by the
Committee at the beginning of the year has been brought into
effect, and the experience of the last few weeks of 1924 gives
promise of a very satisfactory development of the dental work during
the present year to the full extent anticipated.
The arrangements for obtaining spectacles prescribed at the
eye clinic, the procedure in connection with the throat clinic and
in regard to school surveys for uncleanly conditions have been
adjusted in directions indicated in the report. The register of
physically and of mentally defective children has been checked by
the re-examination of all the children noted in the register.
An important step in co-ordination of services was taken by
the Committee, in the unification of the work of two groups of
health visitors, one concerned in school nursing and the other in
maternity and child welfare work. Each health visitor, as from
September, became responsible for all forms of health visiting work
in her district. The change was effected with altogether unexpected
smoothness, and is from all points of view proving most successful.
In view of the approaching termination of tenancy of the
present clinic premises, the Committee decided, jointly with the
Public Health Committee, to provide one building to house their
various clinics, together with an enlarged Sick Nursery, and it is
hoped to have the building available for use in the course of a few
months.