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LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE PRINCIPAL
SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER
FOR THE YEAR
1972
To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
This is the eighth Annual Report of the School Health Service of the
London Borough of Croydon, and if expressed Government Policy is confirmed
by legislation it will be the last to be presented by a Medical
Officer wholly employed by the Corporation. When the decision was made
to reject local authority control of a co-ordinated health service, it became
inevitable that to prevent competition within the public sector for
scarce professional staff the new Area Boards would be required to supply
appropriate medical facilities to Education Authorities. Fortunately in
Croydon there is a long tradition of co-operation between hospital and
local authority health services, so that for parents and children changes
under the new system may pass unnoticed.
Routine Medical Inspections
These increased in number to cope with a record school population.
Findings were largely unchanged. There were five pupils whose physical
condition was noted as "unsatisfactory" (0.03%), half the number recorded
in the previous year. The centralization of medical record cards was