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SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE, 1967
School Population 42,573
Primary Schools 80
Secondary Schools (including Grammar Schools) 27
Technical Schools 2
Schools for Handicapped Pupils (Educationally
Sub-Normal) 3
The following New Primary Schools were opened during 1967:—
Gidea Park Primary
Mitchell Primary
Pinewood Infants'
Towers Infants'
Nelmes Junior
Dycorts Infants'School closed in July and re-opened in September
1967, as a school for Educationally Sub-Normal pupils.
Periodic Medical Inspections
All children are medically examined periodically during
their school life. The first medical inspection is carried out
during the first year in the Infants' School; an intermediate
inspection follows at 10 years of age, during the last year in
the Junior School, and the final inspection is carried out during
the year before reaching school leaving age. Arrangements are
made for investigation or treatment of any defects found at these
medical inspections, in consultation with the child's family
doctor.
During 1967 the Education Committee agreed to a pilot
scheme of selective medical inspection of children in the
intermediate age group in two separate areas of the Borough, the
object of the scheme being to concentrate the School Medical
Officer's time on examination of those children most likely to be
in need of medical attention and to eliminate the considerable
amount of time spent in examining healthy children.
The parent of each child included in this scheme was asked
to complete an enquiry form designed to provide information
about the child's health background, and the teaching and nursing
staff concerned were invited to report on any child who they
considered should be referred for medical examination. The
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