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Summary of Children Unfit for Education within the School System
at the end of 1947:—
At Residential Institution 8(2)
At Special Day School 19(5)
At Ordinary School 1
At Private School 1(1)
At no School or Institution 31(6)
Total 60(14)
Figures in brackets indicate number over 14 years of age.
Employment of School Children and Young Persons.—From special
inquiries made at the various schools during 1947 it was found that 124
children were employed out of school hours. 45 children were submitted for
medical examination in accordance with the Byelaws made under Part II
of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, with the following result:—
Medically fit 45
Employment of Children in Entertainments Provisional Amending
Rules, 1945.—4 Certificates were granted during the year.
Examination of Officers, etc.—The undermentioned teachers and other
officers were medically examined and reported upon during the year:—
Newly-appointed Teachers 3
Newly-appointed Staff 16
Staff Sickness Regulations 2
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Camp Schools.
The Elmbridge Camp School at Cranleigh, Surrey, and Kennylands Camp
School at Kidmore End, near Reading, were taken over by the Essex Education
Committee on the 1st April 1945.
These two schools are administered by the Ilford Committee for Education
for the Essex County Council, and accept children not only from Ilford
but from other parts of the county, at Kennylands for short periods of stay.
Drugs, medicines and medical appliances are still supplied through these
offices and the matrons submit a weekly return showing the variety of cases
dealt with in the School Clinic and cases admitted to the Isolation Dormitory,
Camp Hospital or other hospital.
It has been necessary, as in former years, to draw attention to the inadequacy
of the isolation facilities at the Camp schools.
It was possible in 1947 to continue with the inoculation against diphtheria
and scarlet fever of the children at the Elmbridge Camp School, Dr. A. H.
Gerrard, of Dorking, undertaking the service on a sessional basis ; the numbers
immunised were:—
Scarlet Fever Inoculations = 51}51
Dick Re-tests = -
Diphtheria Inoculations = 40
Schick tests = 17 57