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Number of attendances at the Orthopaedic
Clinic:—
(a) For Surgeon's consultations 313
(b) For treatments, massage and
exercises 1,756
2,069
Number of attendances for Ultra Violet
Ray Clinics:—
(a) North Clinic 1,365
(b) South Clinic 668
2,033
Staff.
Particulars of staff are given at the beginning of this joint
report.
Co-ordination.
The School Medical Service of the Local Education
Authority is an integral part of the Public Health and Maternity
and Child Welfare Service of the Borough. This policy has
been pursued during the past twenty years to the mutual benefit
both of the services as a whole and the public who use them.
If there is any cleavage in these co-ordinated services resulting
from the New Education Act, there will result retrogression in
the New Health Services. It cannot be too often stressed that
you will not obtain full functioning health unless the medical
and mental treatment of the child is associated with improved
environment in which the child lives, works and plays.
Hygiene of Schools.
Owing to the restricted conditions governing labour and
materials, it has not been possible to make any major improvements
during the year.
In the case of one temporary church school, action was
taken to raise the existing standard, and a decided improvement
has been noted.
The principle of a hygienic school environment which we
have urged so long as a "sine qua non" of the perfect School
Medical Service, bids fair to attain complete fulfilment under
the reconstructive proposals envisaged in the new education
legislation. In the past 20 years Bromley Education Committee
have done much in the establishment of modern school buildings,
so that we now have Burnt Ash, Princes Plain, Southborough,
Hayes and Aylesbury Road Schools with modern ideas
of what school buildings really should be. The remaining old
schools in the Borough will be supplanted, let us hope, in the
near future.