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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bromley 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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| No. of operations for Tonsils and Adenoids | 151 |
| No. of attendances at the Orthopredic Clinic | 3303 |
| (i) For Consultations | |
| (ii) For Treatments, Massage, etc. | |
| No. of attendances at the Ultra-Violet Ray Clinics | 2434 |
| No. of children referred to the Care Committee | 228 |
Staff.
Full particulars of the School Medical Service Staff
are included under the Heading of Public Health Staff
on page 7.
Following on my report of the previous year, the
Focal Authority appointed in February, 1938, an additional
Medical Officer, six-eighths of whose time is allocated
to the School Medical Service.
Co-ordination.
The School Medical Service is fully co-ordinated with
the services of the Health Department. The services come
under my jurisdiction and all clerical work is centralised
under one records department. The supervision of the
fluid is thus continuous from birth to school-leaving age.
The school clinics, of which there are two, function as
Health Clinics for maternity and child welfare, school
medical service and public health.
Hygiene of Schools.
A healthv school environment is a sine qua. non of
a sound school medical service but there are still running
one or two old schools which do not come up to the
modern standards required by the educationalist.