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2. CO-ORDINATION.
Close co-operation has been maintained along the lines detailed
in the report for 1931.
Your Authority and the Council in 1930 approved the general
principle of co-ordinating the activities of the School Medical
Service and the Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme by combining
the offices of School Nurse and Health Visitor as opportunity should
arise in future.
Following the resignation of one of the school nurses in June, a
School Nurse with Health Visitor's qualifications was appointed
and one of the existing staff of Health Visitors was allocated for
half-time School Medical duties. These two "combined-duty"
Nurses supervise the area which was formerly supervised by one
whole-time School Nurse and one whole-time Health Visitor. The
scheme leads to economy of time in Home visiting and obviates the
frequent ridiculous anomaly of a Health Visitor visiting the baby
of the family and a School Nurse visiting a school child of the same
family in one day.
At the same time the schools allocated to the Medical, Dental
and Nursing Staffs were re-arranged so that the appropriate School
Nurse should attend medical inspection carried out in any school
for which she was responsible.
3. THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION
TO PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
School Hygiene.—The following table shows the number of
schools in the Borough and the accommodation, etc.:—