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The report of Dr. Hinden, Consultant Pædiatrician, on the
facilities which exist for the treatment of cerebral palsy at the Hale
End School is of interest, and especially his view that it needs
comparatively little additional equipment to make it into a completely
adequate treatment centre so few of which exist in the
country.
Amongst the mechanical aids provided during the year was a
group hearing aid at the School for the Partially Deaf, and the loan
from County sources of a tape recorder for speech therapy.
The usual measures have been followed in preventing and
minimising the infection of school children with tuberculosis, i.e.,
the chest X-ray examination of staff, mass radiography, and the
B.C.G. trials. At the end of the year the Committee agreed to the
tuberculin testing of school entrants as a means of case finding.
Visits were paid by medical officers of the Ministry of Education
and two of H.M. Inspectors of Schools to the various special
schools, to the school nurses and the Dental and Child Guidance
Clinics. Dr. Watkins undertook a duplicate set of First Aid lectures
to teaching staff.
Once again I wish to express appreciation to the Chairman
and members of the Committee, to the Borough Education Officer
and his staff, and particularly to the staff of the School Health
Service, a record of whose work appears in the following pages.
I am,
Your obedient Servant,
A. T. W. POWELL,
Medical Officer of Health and Borough School Medical Officer.