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MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS
In order to ensure that staff appointed to work for the Council in any capacity are
fit to perform their specific duties efficiently, it is necessary for medical examinations
to be carried out.
These fall into two main categories. Those who seek permanent appointments in
administrative, technical and clerical posts are examined at the time of appointment,
and those who are admissible to the Sickness Pay Scheme of the National Joint
Industrial Council for Local Authorities non-trading services are examined after
6 months service.
The latter scheme enables some employees to be accepted with reservations as to
conditions for which sickness pay is granted when otherwise they would fail the
examination.
The following examinations were carried out during the year:—
Administrative, Technical and Clerical staff 65
Sickness Pay Scheme (Servants) 146
211
The Sickness Pay Scheme examinations may be further classified as follows:—
Passed without Passed with
No. examined reservation reservations
146 114 32
The conditions for which reservations were made were:—
High Blood Pressure 4
Hernia 3
Hernia and Varicose Veins 1
Mental Illness 1
Tuberculosis 2
Diabetes 3
Varicose Veins 3
Bladder Disease 1
Cardio-vascular disease 1
Neurosis 1
Peptic Ulcer 1
Bronchitis 2
Acromegaly 1
Duodenal Ulcer 3
Asthma 1
Shoulder Injury 1
Filaria 1
Renal Calculus 1
Diverticulitis 1
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