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Part-time.
Physiotherapist Mr. W. A. Taylor 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
Clerk (Clerical Division) Mrs. D. Cox ¾
Clerks (General Division) Mrs. W. Foot ¾
Miss D. I. Payne ¾
* Includes duties in connection with Independent Schools.
Introduction.
To the Chairman and Members of the Welfare Committee.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The functioning of the School Medical Service has continued
without great change from the scheme approved by the Education
Committee 25 years ago. The administration of certain
specialised services has, within the last three years, been
centralised, but even in these the day to day administrative
work is being carried out by the local medical and nursing staff
under the direction of the Local School Welfare Committee.
This delegation of the School Health Services to the excepted
area of Bromley is. unlike that of Part III services under the
Health Act, a reasonably true delegation of day to day administration.
This effects a sustained incentive, an economy of
action, and a close public partnership of Committee, public and
officers, a partnership necessary and desirable in all local
government.
The statistics that appear in the appendix are those required
of us by the Ministry of Education and will in due course be
incorporated into the statistics of the Kent County as a whole.
One should not judge the service by mass statistics but rather
by the character and efficiency of the professional work carried
out during the year.
During 1949, half of Dr. Carter-Locke's service was transferred
to School Health Service and to the routine periodic
medical examinations of pupils attending Private Schools in
Bromley. This new extension of the service to the independent
private school began with the Summer Term. Six independent
schools signified their desire to be included in the scheme and
by the end of the year some 543 of their pupils had been
examined. The innovation appears to have been well received
both by the schools and parents. The burden on the shoulders
of the School Nurses was considerably lightened by use where
possible, of such persons as school matrons, who undertook the
work normally performed by the school nurse.