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Walthamstow 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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2. CO-ORDINATION.
Close co-operation has been maintained along the lines
detailed in the previous reports.
Further co-ordination of the School Nursing and Health
Visiting Scheme was effected during the year following the
resignation of a whole-time School Nurse and a whole-time
Health Visitor.
Two new joint appointments were made and at the end of
the year school duties were carried out by two whole-time
school nurses and six nurses under the joint scheme, giving
half-time to school nursing, i.e., equivalent to a total of five
whole-time nurses. One of the two whole-time school
nurses was given study leave by your Committee in order
to take the course prescribed for the new Health Visitor's
Certificate.
3. THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION
TO PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
| Number of Schools and Accommodation. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seating Accommodation. | ||||||||
| Boys. | Girls. | Infts. | Mxd. | Boys. | Girls. | Infts. | Mxd. | |
| Provided | 15 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 5675 | 5552 | 6605 | 3258 |
| Non-Provided | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 208 | 472 | 437 | 855 |
| Special Schools— | ||||||||
| Mentally Defective | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 130 |
| Deaf Centre | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 20 |
| Myope Centre | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 85 |
| Physically Defective | ||||||||
| Centre | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 80 |
| Nursery School | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 150 |
| Totals | 16 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 5883 | 6024 | 7042 | 4578 |
1935
Number of Children on
Register, December 31st 17,845
Average Attendance ... 16,140.5
Percentage Attendance ... 89.4
Population ... ... 135,090
Percentage of School Children
to Population ... ... 13.2
1934 1933 1932 1931
18,516 19,633 19,727 19,467
16,630.2 17,402.2 17,290.7 17,994.9
88.1 88.8 88.5 88.3
135,600 135,010 134,420 132,956
13.6 14.5 14.6 14.6