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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 1993
Number selected for full examination 105
Number found unfit for employment 5
Number recommended for further review 5
Medical examinations for other authorities 11
Number of full medical examinations of teachers and
prospective pupil teachers (carried out according to
national requirements outside the Council scheme) 345
Number of persons screened by chest X-ray (i e duties
in contact with children) 1160
Number of persons screened for intestinal pathogens
(i e duties concerned with preparation of food) 539
Number of special medical examinations 135
Medical examinations for heavy goods vehicle driving
licences (3 unfit to hold licence) 50
MENTAL HEALTH
As stated in lastyear's Annual Report, reports on patients
discharged from hospital after treatment for mental illness
continued to be forwarded to the Medical Officer of Health and
324 such reportswere received during 1972 Relevant information
contained in the reports was made available to the Social Services
Department
With the formation of the Community Psychiatric Nursing
Service increasingly the referral of these patients will be made
direct to these nurses who visit these patients whilst still in
hospital and will initiate referral for social work help as necessary
From June 1972 these nurses made 118 visits
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