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County Borough of Croydon
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER
For the Year ending December 31st, 1950.
To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present for your consideration the
Annual Report of the School Medical Officer for the year ending
December 31st, 1950.
There are no major changes to which attention need be
drawn.
Routine medical inspections of the extra age group, first
introduced last year, have proceeded smoothly. The delays in
obtaining glasses have gradually diminished. Difficulties in the
dental service, on which the Senior Dental Officer comments,
have not been solved, but some improvement has been effected in
the total aggregate of staff employed. The School Dental Service,
however, remained unable to fulfil its proper function of systematically
establishing a dentally fit school population and the
conditions under which the dental officers continued to work
were harassing and frustrating.
Infectious diseases, mainly mild in character, were somewhat
prevalent. The change in the severity of such illnesses as Scarlet
Fever renders strict exclusion, and contact control, irksome to