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Again this year it has not been possible to secure the services of an assistant
warden at the recuperative hostel. The arrangement, too, whereby a social science
student from Brunei University filled this post during the summer holiday period
was repeated, but not very satisfactorily.
It is with regret I have to report that Mrs. V. Stanton, who served as an
assistant supervisor at the Junior Training School, died on the 23rd November, after
a long illness.
MEDICAL ASSESSMENT AND EXAMINATION
The London Borough of Enfield is a large employer of many categories of
officers and manual workers.
The administrative, professional and technical officers equal in number the
total teaching staff while these together are equalled by the number of manual
workers. In all some 9,000 persons are in the employ of the borough.
Medical assessments undertaken by the Health Department for all departments
of the Council totalled 2,012.
PRE-EMPLOYMENT MEDICAL ASSESSMENTS
Teachers
The Department of Education and Science requires that, in respect of all
candidates for admission to teacher training colleges and those teachers taking up
their first appointment who have not been appointed direct from a training college,
a medical report shall be submitted on statutory forms. The result of these reports
is subject to confirmation by the Department of Education and Science.
Those medically fit are in these circumstances admitted to a national superannuation
scheme at the commencement of their careers as teachers. One hundred
and one teachers and 283 trainees were medically examined and all were passed as fit.
Teachers who have held a previous teaching appointment on entering the service
of this Council are subject to medical assessment including, where necessary, medical
examination. The total number of assessments was 296, and of this number eleven
required medical examination. None was found unfit.
Others
In accordance with the schemes of conditions of service laid down by the
National Joint Council for Local Authorities' Administrative, Professional, Technical
and Clerical Services, the Greater London Joint Council for Local Authorities'
Services (Manual Workers), and the Whitley Councils for the Health Services,
candidates for employment are medically assessed for fitness for admission to the
Council's Sickness Pay and Superannuation Schemes.
Of the 1,332 assessments made, 70 required medical examination and seven
were found to be unfit.
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