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School Health Service
Leyton Committee for Education
1956 - 57
Chairman : Councillor J. J. Walsh.
Vice-Chairman : Councillor A. L. Chamberlain.
Representative Members (Leyton Borough Council)—
Aldermen A. E. Bechervaise
A. W. Bourne
Mrs. J. Hammond, O.B.E., J.P.
Mrs. R. King
Councillors F. J. Abbott, J.P.
G. S. Bentley
Miss V. D. Gostling
W. J. Low
F. W. Marshall
C. J. Mills
Mrs. E. V. Pearson
G. W. A. Robinson
S. G. Shepherd, J.P.
J. D. Watson
Co-optative Members :
Messrs. I. A. Brown
R. F. Drew
J. Fairfax
J. A. Powell
M. Rayner
L. W. Turp
Nominated Members :
County Councillors E. C. Hardy
G. W. Mason
SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE
The aim of the School Health Service is to ensure that each school
child is regularly kept under medical supervision in order that he or she
may take full advantage of the educational facilities made available under
the Education Act 1944. This Service has been quietly developed over the
year and, like all preventive work, is very seldom news. Routine medical
inspections are carried out by the medical officers in the schools and these
take place (a) in the child's first year at the primary infant school; (b)
the third year in the primary junior school and (c) the last year in the
secondary school. Parents are given the opportunity to attend at the
routine medical examinations and the medical officers bring to their notice
any medical defects detected, and advice is given as to obtaining the
necessary treatment from their own private doctors or through the
Specialist Services at the hospitals. The medical officers refer those
needing treatment to the dental officers or the consultants of the Specialist
Clinics set up by the Local Hospital Management Committee at the