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To the Chairman and Members of the
Walthamstow Committee for Education.
I beg to submit my Twenty-ninth and last Annual Report as
Borough School Medical Officer for the calendar year 1958.
wish to offer the following comments.
Some progress was made in regard to the renovation and
modernisation of the sanitary accommodation at schools, but very
much more remains outstanding.
With regard to major capital works, details are given in the
extracts which are printed in the following pages from the Annual
Report of the Borough Education Officer. These works comprise
the completion of the second stage of the McEntee Technical
School, of the part occupation of the Sidney Chaplin Secondary
Modern School, the commencement of the new Chapel End Infants
School, and of the anticipated occupation of the Warwick Secondary
Modern Girls School in January, 1959. In addition, plans for the
extension and alterations at the Chapel End and Sidney Burnell
Secondary Modern Schools and the gymnasium and changing
rooms at the Sir George Monoux School were completed during
1958.
The appointment of a Senior Dental Officer referred to in last
year's report still remains vacant and it has not even been possible
to recruit a dental officer in his place.
The arrangements made by the Hospital Management Committee
for the specialist staffing of the Special Clinics continues
very satisfactorily and reference is made to the excellent arrangements
for the supply and repair of spectacles by the Dispensing
Optician.
Two classes were begun for the reception of dull and backward
children.
Dr. Hinden draws attention to the earlier maturation of our
children and its bearing on the question of juvenile delinquency.