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The Deputy Principal School Medical Officer conducted a first aid
course for a group of approximately sixty girls at Lady Edridge Grammar
School.
Throughout the Summer Term in groups of about thirty pupils, School
Medical Officers and Health Education staff demonstrated mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation to all the pupils at the High School for Girls, Coloma Girls
Grammar School, Lady Edridge Girls Grammar School and Selhurst Girls
Grammar School. During each session the short films "Emergency
Resuscitation Parts I and II" (St. John Ambulance Association) were
shown, the content was discussed and was followed by each pupil carrying
out the practical exercise on the Resusci-Anne model.
Junior and Infant Schools
Once again an excellent piece of health education was carried out
by Dr. W. Simmonds at Rockmount Infants' School. Following a series
of entrants' medical examinations he gave a talk and film on "Your
Children's Ears" to the parents of the children whom he had seen.
The pairs of evening talks on "Growing Up" to (a) The first evening
- parents of boys and girls and (b) The second evening - mothers and
daughters, were given in thirty-three primary schools and the material
used was also demonstrated to some of the head teachers and staff of
Roman Catholic schools who prefer to undertake this instruction themselves.
During the year 1966/67 in an attempt to evaluate and adjust this
work, parents of the fourth year children in all the schools visited are
being asked to complete a short questionnaire indicating helpfulness,
comprehension of the child and any other observations or comments.
In-Service Training
(a) In co-operation with the Health Department, the Education Department
arranged a formal study day in the Denning Hall of the Technical
College on "Education in Personal Relationships, Venereal Disease and
Drug Taking." About one hundred and fifty head teachers, medical
officers, health visitors, district nurses, hospital staff, social workers
and others attended and the speakers included:—
Mr. C.R. Rivers-Moore, Headmaster, Havant Grammar School.
Mr. A.J. King, F.R.C.S., Senior Physician at the London Hospital.
Dr. Hare, Consultant Psychiatrist, Croydon Child Guidance Clinic.
Mrs. Rose Hacker, Marriage Guidance Councillor.
(b) The Health and Welfare of the School Child
A week's course for twenty newly-appointed school nurses was held
in the health education section; lectures were given by public health
staff and covered all aspects of the health and welfare of the school
child and health education.