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APPENDIX
SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE 1930-1958
New Schools
1930 School Nursing Staff increased. St. Patricks.
1931 Rheumatism Clinic established.
1932 Immunisation against diphtheria
menced.
1933 Orthodontic treatment begun.
1935 Third dental team appointed. Thorpe Hall.
Medical and dental inspections undertaken
for County Education Committee.
1936 Whole-time speech therapist appointed. Hale End O.A.S.
1937 Fourth dental team appointed.
1938 Orthoptic treatment begun and Scabies
Clinic opened.
1940 Decision that all school staff have chest
x-ray on appointment. Sidney Burnell Secondare.
Educational psychologist appointed and
Child Guidance Clinic opened.
1944 Additional Child Guidance services.
1945 1st April—Appointed Day under Education
Act, 1944.
1946 Child Guidance service extended to
Leyton Borough and Forest Divisions.
Three new dental clinics provided.
1948 Commencement of post-War renovation
of sanitary accommodation.
School meals over 10,000 per day.
80% of children under fifteen years
immunised against diphtheria.
1949 Orthodontic appliances made in Dental
Workshop.
Immunisation against whooping cough
begun.
Paediatric Clinic commenced.
Beginning of Medical Research Council
B.C.G. Trials.
1953 Appointment of additional dental team. Sidney Burnell Infants
Provision of Group Hearing Aid at School
for the Deaf.
Tuberculin testing of school entrants.
First Aid instruction to Teaching Staff.
1954 Improvement to Dental Surgeries at Town
Hall.
Mothercraft lectures at schools.
B.C.G. vaccination at schools commenced.
1955 Specialist Dental Anaesthetist made
able.
Audiometric survey.
Rheumatism Clinic merged with Paediatric
Clinic.
1956 Increased mothercraft teaching at
dary schools.
1957 Dysentery, Ringworm, Food Poisoning
and poliomyelitis outbreaks occurred. McEntee Technical.
Jubilee Review of School Health Service
(1907/1957) prepared.
1958 Two classes started for Dull and Backward
children. Warwick Secondary Girls.
Sidney Chaplin Secondary.