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Report of the School Medical
Officer.
In accordance with the suggestions contained in Form 6M
issued by the Board of Education, much of the subject matter
of this Report, having been included in previous reports, is
not repeated ; reference is made to items which have in previous
years received full consideration.
Co-ordination.
As your Medical Officer of Health is also School Medical
Officer, it is ensured that there is no overlapping between the
two departments. All information as to the incidence of
infectious diseases is immediately available for the use of the
Assistant School Medical Officer and the school nurses, and vice
versa, infectious diseases discovered through absences from
school and which are not notifiable are transmitted to the Health
Department for following up, thereby ensuring that such outbreaks
are controlled.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION
TO PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
School Hygiene.
Under the Authority of the Erith Education Committee
there are 9 provided schools with 20 departments and one nonprovided
school with one department.

Some change has taken place, since my last report, in the
dispensation of the schools and departments at Belvedere. The
All Saints' School has been partly closed, and during the
Autumn term of 1930, a new school was opened at Bedonwell
Hill comprising a Junior Mixed and an Infants' Department.
Accommodation has thus been found for scholars from the school
which has been closed, and, for the children who have migrated
into the district and who are living in the new estates which
have sprung up in this particular part of the district.