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53
Report
of the School Medical Officer.
November, 1939
To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee
of the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-
Thames.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the Annual Report for
the year 1938.
The form of the report is identical with that for 1937.
The average number of children on the school register
for the year was 3,440.
In addition there were 45 children on the books of
the Special Open Air School at the end of the year.
Medical Inspection, orthopaedic, eye, nose and throat,
and dental work were carried out on the same lines as
before. For the first time during the year a new age group
of boys and girls was specially included in the medical
inspection programme when leavers, i.e., aged 14 years,
were medically inspected before leaving school to enter employment.
The special class for speech defects was continued with
satisfactory results.
The scheme for the provision of milk in schools was
carried on during school terms and resulted in 75% of
the school population taking milk at school compared with
61% in 1937 and 20% before the scheme operated.