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Qualifications
of
Medical
Officers.
hold a Diploma in Public Health, (2) have had
some definite experience of school hygiene, and (3)
have enjoyed special opportunities for the study of
diseases in children. The particular needs and
circumstances of the area or group of schools
concerned should receive due consideration, and
great care must be taken to see that school hygiene
really forms an integral and fundamental part of
the public health administration of the district, and
is not subordinated to other less important sanitary
questions."
Question of
Part time
employment
of
General
Practitioners
In Willesden the work is obviously more than
the Medical Officer of Health can undertake unaided,
and the choice of assistants lies between the
appointment of all-time Medical Officers, devoting
themselves exclusively to the work, and the parttime
employment of medical practitioners otherwise
engaged in general practice in the district. The
chief advantage of employing local general practitioners
is that they are familiar in their practices
with the diseases widely affecting the children
attending public elementary schools, and they have
a direct knowledge of the home conditions of these
children and of the circumstances which lead to the
prevalence of the morbid affections.