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Miss R. Bartter tendered her resignation to take effect
at the end of the year, and obtained the post of Health
Visitor to Buckhurst Hill.
Miss O. Rowles, clerk and typist, left the Service on
June 29th, having obtained a post under the Surrey County
Council.
Miss P. M. Ingillson was appointed to take her place.
CO-ORDINATION.
The School Medical Officer is also Medical Officer of
Health.
The School Nurses are also Health Visitors, and each
carries out both Maternity, Child Welfare and School Work
in her own particular area.
Close touch is kept between the School Attendance
Officers and the School Medical Department.
The difficulties and waste of time caused by the fact
that the office and Clinics of the School Medical Service are
nearly a mile from the Public Health Department, have been
accentuated by the steady growth of Public Health, School,
and Maternity and Child Welfare work.
Since further duties are to be undertaken in the very
near future, it is an urgent matter that all branches of the
Health Services should be centralized under one roof, where
the various activities could be carried out, and all records
and correspondence would be immediately available, otherwise
both administrative and executive work will continue
to be most difficult, and the efficiency of the Services must
suffer in consequence to a further extent.
I drew attention to the position in my Annual Report
for 1925, and again emphasised the need for contralization
in my Annual Report for last year.
SCHOOL HYGIENE.
A general review of the Public Elementary Schools was
given in the Annual Report for 1925, and a list of repairs
and improvements is set out each year.