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SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE
School Population
The school population for the Borough on the 18th January 1968 was 34,391, as shown in the
following table:-
Primary Schools and Nursery Classes 20,654
Nursery Schools 241
Secondary Comprehensive Schools 11,579
Secondary Modern Schools 1,215
Secondary Grammar Schools 394
Special Schools:
Vale Road School for Physically Handicapped 88
Blanche Nevile School for the Deaf
(including classes for partially hearing) 129
Suntrap Residential Open-air School) 91
34,391
Medical Inspections in Schools
Medical examinations in schools are at present under reorganisation which, it is hoped, will be
completed by September, 1969. As from the school year commencing on that date there will be a full
medical examination of each child on school entry and during the child's last year at school, with
examination by selection in the last year in the primary school. Selection for examination at this age
will be made by a school medical officer as a result of answers to questionnaires sent to the parents
and after consultation with the head teachers of the schools concerned. This will lead to a fuller
account of the individual child's health and needs being passed on to the head teachers of comprehensive
schools.
During the year at the invitation of the Head Teacher of Drayton Comprehensive School a new idea
was explored with a view to establishing closer and more continuous links between the school health
service and the school. It is proposed that a school medical officer should visit the school each week
on a regular afternoon during term time to carry out medical examinations and to be available to give
advice to pastoral heads on particular problems. The school is fortunate in obtaining the services of
a distinguished authority on the problems of young people.

In the Appendix to this report will be found an analysis of the defects found to require treatment
or observation.
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