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Returns of non-notifiable diseases might be retained
is a routine, as to some extent they give a pointer to the
incidence of such diseases in the area.
During 1942 mumps and chicken-pox were responsible
for some loss of school time, but scabies, impetigo
and other skin infections, which do not figure at all in
the above returns and which involved no less than 597
individual treatments at the clinics alone, were responsible
for much loss of school time.
OPEN AIR EDUCATION.
There is nothing to report on this matter except in
so far as it is linked with physical education, which is
very adequately dealt with in the statement of the District
Organisers of Physical Education as follows:—
STATEMENT ON PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR
THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1942.
General. The year has been marked by important
changes in the character and scope of the duties of the
Or ganisers of Physical Education in this area. Hitherto,
these duties had been limited to the organisation and
development of this subject in the elementary schools of
Beckenham, Bromley, Erith, Gravesend and Penge, and
included the training of teachers and the supervision of
physical exercises, organised games and swimming, etc.
With the introduction of the Government's Scheme
of Youth Service, however, the demands for the development
of Physical Training and Recreation in Youth
Clubs and pre-Service training units, etc., had become
so urgent that it was considered advisable to review the
terms and conditions of the Organisers' appointment,
with the object of extending these services into this new
field of development.
Thus, as from the 1st February, 1942, under a newly
constituted Joint Committee representing the Beckenham,
Bromley and Penge and the County Higher
Education Committees, the following additional duties
were incorporated in the terms of reference governing
the organisers' appointment:—
(a) The promotion and organisation of Physical
Training and Recreative Physical Training
classes and Games for adolescents and adults.