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LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE PRINCIPAL
SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER
FOR THE YEAR
1970
To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
This is the sixth Annual Report of the School Health Service of the
London Borough of Croydon.
It covers the usual wide range of activities, and is fortunately devoid
of any major adverse episode, I comment on some aspects dealt with in
detail in the Report itself.
Routine School Medical Inspections
These continued unchanged as the basis for supervision and ascertainment.
The numbers increased in ratio with the larger school population. For
several years I have mentioned national trends to modify or replace this
system, and with our centralization of medical records making good progress
we shall soon be able to operate any of the adaptations current in other local
authority areas. However, scrutiny of their reports and local study sessions
have reinforced our view that if skilled and interested doctors are covering
these medical interviews, which-determine the need for more detailed medical
examinations, no alternative techniques are of superior or even of equal merit.
There was thus no pressing need for changes under conditions of medical
staffing which prevailed last year, and this satisfactory position continues.