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15
SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES
These services have been described in detail in previous
reports, but certain changes in their administration have
followed as a result of the operation of the National Health
Service Act, 1946. In the original scheme of Divisional
Administration of education, the Divisional Executive were
responsible for the medical and dental inspection of pupils
attending any school maintained by the County Council and
for the ascertainment of which children in the Borough required
special educational treatment. In addition, they were
responsible for securing that pupils attending any school
maintained by the County Council should have free medical
treatment in accordance with the arrangements made by the
County Council and approved by the Minister. As a result
of the operation of the National Health Service Act it became
inevitable that the treatment provided for school children at
Health Centres should be co-ordinated with the Local Health
Service provided under the National Health Service Act, treatment
becoming therefore the concern of the Local Health
Authority acting through the Area Health Committee and not
of the Divisional Executive. All matters of periodic medical
inspection, dental inspection, inspection of cleanliness, ascertainment
of pupils requiring special educational treatment and
all matters dealt with under Section 57 of the Education Act
and the provision of child guidance services, other than
specialist treatment, remaining with the Divisional Executive.
PERIODIC MEDICAL AND OTHER INSPECTIONS:
It will be seen from Table No. X that 6,098 children were
inspected at periodic medical inspections and that a further
8,138 special inspections and re-inspections were made. The
nutritional standard of the children examined at the periodic
medical inspections is shown in the following Table with a
comparison with that of the year 1947:—