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Report of the School Medical
Officer.
The School Health Service functioned as in previous years
except with the necessary modifications of procedure brought
about with the coming into operation of the Education Act
1944, on the 1st April.
Dental work was continued by the Dental Surgeon, and
diphtheria immunisation proceeded on the lines previously
described.
At the present time the School Medical Service remains
linked with the Maternity and Child Welfare and general
Public Health Services of the Borough and it is hoped that this
policy can be maintained.
At the end of 1945 there were 4,828 children on the roll
of the elementary schools, distributed as follows:
Nursery Class 89
Infants Schools 996
Primary and Infants Schools 368
Primary Schools 1909
County Modern Schools 1466
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
No. of children on the school roll 4828
No. of individual children who attended medical clinics 2086
No. of individual children medically examined at schools 2625
No. of medical examinations at the clinics 6953
(i) Hainault 6268
(ii) Bedonwell 685
No. of inspections for uncleanliness and verminous
conditions (school nurses) 11866
No. of attendances for treatment at the Dental Clinic 2681
No. of treatments at the Eye Clinic 389
No. of spectacles prescribed 145
No. of attendances at the Orthopaedic Clinic 498
(i) For consultation 305
(ii) For treatment, massage, etc. 193
No. of attendances at Ultra Violet Ray Clinics 161
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Routine medical inspections have not been confined only
to the usual prescribed age groups, and every endeavour has
been made to give as many school children as possible the
benefit of this examination.