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101
STAFF MEDICAL EXAMINATION
The medical supervision of all Corporation staff provided by
the Health Department covers:-
(a) The scrutiny of the Health Statements made by all
successful applicants to officer grades and any follow-up or
medical examination deemed necessary.
(b) Medical examination of all manual workers to determine:;-
(i) Fitness for duty.
(ii) Eligibility for inclusion in the sick pay scheme.
(c) Medical examination of prospective student teachers.
(d) Examination for freedom from intestinal infection:-
(i) All employees of the Water Undertaking.
(ii) All school meal service and canteen personnel.
Arrangements for re-checks.
(e) Eye tests on all Corporation drivers over 50 years of
age at specified intervals.
(f) Scrutiny of records of all staff who have been absent
for an aggregate of more than 8 weeks during the preceding 12
months or who are exhausting entitlement to sick pay. Follow up
for cause and anticipated date of return to duty. Report on
financial circumstances by an Almoner of the Health Department,
in order that a special Establishment Sub-Committee may decide
on extension of sick pay.
(g) Arrangements for annual re-X-Ray examination of staff
who work in contact with children.
(h) Special examination of any member of staff referred by
the Department concerned.
(i) Enquiries into excessive sickness in any section of
the Corporation's staff.
1,307 examinations were made during the year by the Medical
Staff of the Department including 194 vision tests for drivers.
of these 977 were in respect of manual workers, who were
classified as follows: -
Pit for employment and sick pay scheme 684
Deferred for review 91
Unfit for sick pay scheme 187
Pit for light employment only
(Not fit for sick pay scheme) 7
Unfit for employment 8
Total 977