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Health Education in Schools.
The Health Visitor spends a considerable amount of her time in
providing health education for mothers with young children. The school
leaver provides a fertile ground for education of a kind which will be of
benefit to him or her when he or she in time becomes a parent.
A course of lessons on mothercraft for girl leavers was started this
year in Goodall Road School through the kind co-operation and interest
of the Head Teacher. The course consisted of ten lessons per term and
the syllabus covered all the aspects of preparation for motherhood and
the care and management of the infant, with practical demonstrations and
visits to clinics and day nurseries.
The Health Visitors' curriculum includes Health Education. Even
so two of our Health Visitors undertook, at their own expense, a special
course in health education which was organised by the Association of
Women Public Health Officers and entailed one evening lecture a
week for three terms. With the help of the Health Visitors and the
interest of Head Teachers, it is hoped to extend the facilities to other
schools during the coming year.
Handicapped Pupils.
Delicate.
In 1956, 11 boys and 9 girls were ascertained as delicate pupils and
all were recommended for residential school. Only one boy was awaiting
a vacancy at the end of the year.