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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE:
This scheme provides medical screening of all prospective
employees of the Council. The scheme also covers investigation
of any medical matter affecting individual employees or groups of
employees, and medical examination of Council employees in
connection with heavy goods vehicle driving licence.
Entrants to the teaching profession and candidates for admission
to teacher training colleges are also examined in accordance with
the requirements laid down by the Department of Education and
Science.
Statistics relating to this service are as follows:-
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
Number of questionnaires scrutinised 2036
Number selected for full examination 56
Number found unfit for employment 9
Number recommended for further review 4
Medical examinations for other authorities 16
Number of full medical examinations of teachers and
prospective pupil teachers (carried out according to
national requirements outside the Council scheme) 335
Number of persons screened by chest X-ray (i.e. duties
in contact with children) 1130
Number refeued to Chest Clinic 5
Number found have pulmonary tuberculosis 3
Number of persons screened for intestinal pathogens
(i.e. duties concerned with preparation of food) 582
Number of special medical examinations 129
Medical examinations for heavy goods vehicle driving
licences (1 unfit to hold licence) 34
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