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1. STAFF.
A list of the Staff of the School Medical Department will be
found on page 130 of this Report.
2. CO-ORDINATION.
The scheme for the co-ordination of the various health services
of the County Borough has been fully discussed in previous reports,
and 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 has been of much value and has
strengthened very definitely co-ordination between the Public
Health and School Medical Services.
3. THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN
RELATION TO PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
School Hygiene.
During the year 1931 a complete survey of the sanitary
and hygienic conditions pertaining to all the schools of the
Authority has been carried out. Reports upon matters requiring
attention have been submitted month by month to the Committee
In most instances my recommendations have received careful consideration,
and an endeavour has been made to remedy defects
where possible, but a good deal remains to be done in connection
with improvements in lighting, heating, ventilation and overcrowding
of certain classrooms, and in regard to the provision of
sufficient and satisfactory sanitary and cloakroom accommodation.