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Part-time.
Masseuse Mrs. P. A. Urwin *6 sessions a week
Orthoptist Miss M. Ford *6 sessions a week
Clerical Staff.
Chief Clerk Mr. S. F. Judd 3/8
Senior Clerk Mr. E. P. J. Wythe 3/8
Grade I. Clerk Mrs. D. Cox ¾
Grade II. Clerks Mrs. W. Foot ¾
Miss D. I. Payne ¾
*County Officers. (Kent County Council Staff.)
Introduction.
To the Chairman and Members of the Welfare Committee.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Except for the Dental Service we have been able to maintain
a full School Health Service during 1949. The periodic medical
inspections at schools have continued throughout the four age
groups: entrants, eight years, eleven years, and fourteen years,
involving 3,269 children. The confidence of the parents in these
examinations has been built up over the years by making these
examinations in the nature of a consultation between the Medical
Officer, the Parents, School Nurse and Head Teacher. Some 16%
of the children showed evidence of defect requiring treatment.
The usual routine is to refer such children to their own doctors
or to the school clinics, either the special clinics or the minor
ailment clinics.
There have been certain changes in the services of minor
ailment clinics, and sessions are now held at: Hayes School,
where a shelter has been converted into a clinic; at Burnt Ash,
Quernmore and Aylesbury Road Schools. The premises at
Station Road are, in addition to minor ailments, used for the
Special Clinics, i.e., Dental, Maternity and Child Welfare,
Immunisation, Vaccination, Orthopaedic, Ophthalmic and
Orthoptic.
The premises at Princes Plain are used for Dental, Child
Welfare, Speech, Minor Ailments, Immunisation, Vaccination
and Ultra-Violet Rays. The area is thus adequately covered so
as to avoid long absence from school, the clinics being within
easy access of the homes of the children.
The establishment of the Health Service Act has made little
difference to the functioning of the clinics, no less than 15,061
attendances being made during the year. The close co-operation
of the Hospital Staffs, and their sending copies of their reports
on school children attending the hospital has been indeed
helpful. The skilled advice we receive has added much to the
efficiency of the Health Service. I should like to record how