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Purl-lime.
Physiotherapist Mr. W. A. Taylor. 6 sessions per week.
Orthoptist Miss M. A. Jones. 6 sessions per 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
Clerk (General Division) Mrs. W. J. Foot. ¾
Clerk (General Division) Mrs. R. C. Tye. ¾
"x" Includes duties in connection with Independent Schools.
To the Chairman and Members of the Welfare Committee.
School Health Service.
It can be safely claimed that the School Health Service has fulfilled
the aims set so many years ago. That the health of the school
child in Bromley has improved over these years is demonstrable. To
claim that this improvement is entirely due to the School Health Service
would be fallacious, for the progressive social uplift of the people
during the past forty years and all that follows full employment are
perhaps greater factors. Nevertheless. the time is due to give attention
to the administrative pattern of the service which has remained practically
unaltered, although extended, during the past twenty-five years,
and to consider, without prejudice, whether this routine is applicable
to present day needs of the school child and whether the service should
not be still more closely associated with the Hospital Services or the
general practitioner service. If consideration is to be given to change,
it is fundamental that the administration of Health Service to the
school child should not only be unified with the Health Services of the
family, but unified to a local authority in close contact with the people
for whom the services are provided, and should operate without a multiplication
of forms and reports. A service based on statistical returns is
valueless if it operates without personal consultation with the individual
concerned. In this direction, too, economy of effort and economy
in costs will result.
Three hundred and twenty sessions of periodic medical examinations
were held at the schools, 71 of which were held at private schools.
Of the 3,367 children examined, 9.6% showed defects requiring treatment,
and 21.3% for further examination and observation. The reexaminations
of these children are carried out at the various clinics
by special appointment, each clinic being situate close to the schools
and the homes. For details of the defects found, defects treated, and
for reports on the specialised clinics, ophthalmic, orthopaedic, speech,
etc., reference should be made to the body of the report and statistical
tables.