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The only change in the personnel of the Staff during the year
was the resignation of Miss Hopkins, one of the School Nurses, on
the occasion of her marriage, and the appointment of Miss Gardner
as her successor.
All the members of the Staff are full-time officers, with the
exception of the Ophthalmic Surgeon, the Aural Surgeon, Mr.
MacBean, who does the dental surgery for the two secondary schools,
and Miss Dawson, who conducts the Speech Defects Clinic, all of
whom are engaged on a sessional basis.
II.—CO-ORDINATION WITH OTHER MEDICAL SERVICES.
The School Medical Officer is also Medical Officer of Health
and Medical Officer to the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee,
and there is naturally the closest possible co-operation between the
Child Welfare and School Medical services. The specialist medical
and dental services provided by the Education Committee are
available also, by arrangement with the Maternity and Child
Welfare Committee, for children under school age, and this arrangement
makes it possible for defects in young children to be dealt
with as soon as they are discovered, instead of waiting until school
age is reached before treatment is provided.
III.—SCHOOL HYGIENE.
No structural alterations of any importance were made in any
of the schools during the past year. Plans were in preparation,
however, for the erection of a new school to take the place of White
Hart Lane School, and for extensive alterations at Lordship Lane
and Bounds Green Schools.
IV.—MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Medical inspections have been carried out on the same plan
as in previous years, an inspection of all the children in the different
code age-groups having been made in each school during the year.
At these routine inspections the number of children examined
was 2,520. Of these, 692 were entrants, 765 belonged to the second
and 513 to the third age-group, while 550 were of ages outside these
three groups.
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