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1. STAFF.
A list of the Staff of the School Medical Department will be
found on page 120 of this Report.
2. CO-ORDINATION.
Suggestions for the co-ordination of the various health services
of the County Borough have been fully discussed in previous
reports, and I have indicated the general outline of an administrative
scheme which should result in complete co-ordination, greater
efficiency and, ultimately, a very apparent economy.
There is no doubt that the arrangements made for the coordination
of the medical and sanitary services is efficient in so
far as present administrative control will allow. The scheme has
proved of undoubted value and its gradual but sure consolidation
has resulted not only in the elimination of much loss of professional
effort, wastage of important information and overlapping
but has also ensured that closer co-operation and increased consultation
which is so imperative to the successful application of
the principles of preventive medicine.
The appointment of the Chief Administrative Clerk to the
Public Health Services completes the scheme of co-ordination and,
so far as the School Medical Service is concerned, this appointment,
although quite recent, has strengthened very definitely the
channels of co-ordination.
Co-ordination can only be assured by an alert and active office
staff whereby reports and returns are promptly interchanged
between the School Medical Department and the services with
which it is intimately associated (the Education Department and the
Schools, the Maternity and Child Welfare Service, the Tuberculosis
Dispensary, the Hospitals, Convalescent Homes, Schools of
Recovery, etc.), and whereby members of the professional staff
are furnished immediately with any relevant and necessary information
arising out of such reports.
3. THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN
RELATION TO PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
School Hygiene.
During the year 1930 a complete survey of the sanitary
and hygienic conditions pertaining to all the schools of the