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In a district such as Southgate, Maternity and Child Welfare must
play a major part in the Public Health programme. What was
sufficient yesterday will probably not be sufficient to-day, and will
certainly be insufficient to-morrow. We cannot hope to maintain
an efficient service upon the outlay of previous years. Such a
policy would inevitably weaken our resistance, and would moreover
be followed by a completely disproportionate rise in expenditure.
Our defences should be impregnable, for upon those defences
rests the security and well-being of our future population.
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
The arrangements for co-operation between the County School
Medical service and the Public Health Department remain as outlined
in the Annual Report for 1935. Several visits were paid to
elementary schools following the report of multiple cases of infectious
disease, while immunisation was also carried out at two
schools in the district. One visit was again paid to a secondary
school for the purpose of giving a lecture on Public Health to th^
senior scholars in connection with Health Week.
Medical Inspection.—The Middlesex County Medical Officer
is the Chief School Medical Officer for this district, and organises
and supervises the work.
The total number of children inspected at the Elementary
Schools during 1937 was as follows :—
Requiring
Inspected. Treatment.
Entrants 929 179
Intermediates 776 139
Leavers 485 87
2,190 405
Other ages 325 56
Special4 —
329 56
2,519 461
School Clinics.—These are provided by the Middlesex County
Council.
(a) Minor Ailment Treatment Clinics are in operation at
Winchmore Council School, Highfield Road, Winchmore Hill, where
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