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STAFF.
Two Assistant Medical Officers resigned during the year on
obtaining other appointments, Dr. Humphrey Butcher and Dr.
D. F. Irvine.
Dr. Butcher was succeeded by Dr. J. C. Aitken and Dr. Irvine
by Dr. A. J. Muir; Dr. Aitken was previously Resident Medical
Officer at the Isolation Hospital and devoted half his time to
school medical inspection and treatment. Dr. M. Kelly was
appointed to take Dr. Aitken's place. At the end of 1937 the
Ophthalmic Surgeon, Dr. L. G. Scoular, resigned, and Mr. Graeme
G. Talbot, F.R.C.S., was appointed in his place.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
School Hygiene.
During the last few years the great increase in the school
population has necessitated the continual extension of existing
schools and the building of new schools. This has been especially
necessary in Greenford and more recently in Hanwell to cope with
the children living on the London County Council Estate.
The Sanitary arrangements of all schools in the Borough,
both Council and private, are inspected annually by the Sanitary
Inspectors who point out defects and advise regarding necessary
improvements.
In the Council schools only a few defects of a minor character
were discovered and these, on being reported to the Education
Committee, were immediately remedied.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Medical inspection included (1) the routine inspection in the
schools of children in the three age-groups recommended by the
Board of Education, namely, (a) entrants, (b) children at eight
years, and (c) children at twelve years; (2) the special inspection
of children referred by the head-teachers, school nurses, school
enquiry officers, etc.; (3) the annual inspection of physically or
mentally defective children and (4) the inspection of children
in connection with the supply of milk at the cost of the Education
Committee.