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To The Chairman and Members of the
Walthamstow Education Committee.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to present in the following pages a report on the work of
the School Medical Service during 1945.
The most significant feature of the year was the operation in
April of the Education Act, 1944. Your Committee then became
"interim" and later, as an "Excepted Area" under the Walthamstow
Education Scheme, 1945, the Committee for Education.
The volume and quality of the work done have, I believe,
shown no reduction.
All available evidence appears to show that nutrition is well
maintained. The increase of school meals to over 5,000 per day
and the high level of milk meals has unquestionably contributed
very largely to this end.
Innovations during the year included an arrangement with the
London County Council for squint operations; for an additional
weekly psychiatric session at the Child Guidance Clinic and
participation in the Itchingfield School Camp.
Once again it is my pleasure to thank you for your consideration
and to acknowledge the good work of the staff concerned with the
School Medical Services.
I am,
Your obedient servant,
A. T. W. POWELL.
School Medical Officer.