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To the Chairman and Members of the
Walthamstow Committee for Education.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
As this is my last report to the Walthamstow Committee for
Education I would have wished to include a review of the achievements
over the years since the inception of the School Health
Service, and especially those more recent advances since the
publication by Dr. Powell of the Jubilee report in 1958. Unfortunately
the urgent pressure of preparing for the amalgamation
of the New Boroughs has enforced the edict that reports should be
kept to a minimum, and I can only hope that future reviews of the
School Health Service of Waltham Forest will include, and duly
acknowledge, the attainments of Walthamstow. Certainly the new
Borough is inheriting some of the finest schools in the Country
despite a high proportion of sub-standard and obsolete buildings,
and I must acknowledge the ready encouragement and help I have
received from the successive Chairman and Members of the Walthamstow
Committee for Education, from the Borough Education Officer
and his staff, and from my own colleagues in the Health Department,
especially those directly concerned with the School Health Service.
I am,
Your obedient Servant,
M. WATKINS
Divisional School Medical Officer.