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activities which are not easily provided at school, and the action
of Bromley parents in playing their part as hosts on the occasion
of the National Championships of the English Schools' Swimming
Association. A permanent link is the Miss Bentley Memorial.
In concluding this report I wish to refer to the retirement of
Dr. H. B. Carter-Locke, Senior Medical Officer (School Health)
which took place on 1st January, 1969. He was appointed Deputy
Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer to the
former Borough of Bromley in January, 1949, and succeeded Dr.
K. E. Tapper as Medical Officer of Health and School Medical
Officer on the 21st February, 1955. He has been responsible for
the day-to-day administration of the School Health Services in
the London Borough of Bromley since 1st April, 1965, and will
be greatly missed as a most dependable colleague with a genius
for organisation. He has been succeeded by Dr. Peter Currie,
formerly Senior Medical Officer Maternal and Child Health.
Finally, may I sincerely thank the Chairman and Members of
the Committee for their sympathetic appreciation of the interlocking
duties of the medical staff of the School Health and Health
and Welfare Departments and for their support in the maintenance
of statutory responsibilities in a year of stringent financial restrictions.
I wish to thank Mr. Barraclough, the Chief Education
Officer, his staff and the Heads of Schools for their advice and
support and my own staff in the School Health Service for sustained
diligence and enthusiasm.
L. R. L. Edwards,
Principal School Medical Officer.
SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE
The borough has a duty to provide for the medical inspection
at appropriate intervals, and to make arrangements for securing
the provision of free medical and dental treatment of pupils in
attendance at maintained schools. The School Health Service,
under the direction of the Principal School Medical Officer,
administers these services on behalf of the borough.
It is the aim of the School Health Service, in collaboration
with the Education Department, to be satisfied by means of these
medical examinations that every child is able to receive the type
of education best suited to his age, aptitude and ability.
There are 35 secondary (including two direct grant) and 86
primary schools in the borough; also three special day schools
for educationally subnormal children.
In January, there were 44,774 pupils (an increase of 1.052) on
the registers of the maintained primary, secondary, special and
nursery schools.