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Blackburn resigned to take up an appointment under another
Authority on 31st May. To fill the vacancies thus created Miss
Woodroff, who had been acting in a temporary capacity since
November of the previous year, was appointed to the staff on
1st March. Miss Hughes commenced duties on 1st June, and
Miss Thompson on 1st July.
During this period the work was carried on under considerable
difficulties and for a period of three months the services
of a temporary School Nurse-Health Visitor were necessary.
In spite of the disorganisation caused by these changes the
work was carried out during the year with remarkably little
disturbance.
2. CO-ORDINATION.
(a) There is complete co-ordination between the work of the
School Medical Service and that of the Maternity and Child
Welfare Department. In addition to the Senior School Nurse,
who devotes her whole time to the School Medical Service, there
are three School Nurse-Health Visitors. These latter devote
two-thirds of their time to Maternity and Child Welfare work,
and one-third to the School Medical Department. Children
attending the Infant Welfare Centres remain under the supervision
of the same Health Visitor after they commence school.
The School Medical Department with its Ophthalmic and
Dental branches, and the Maternity and Child Welfare Department
are centralised in the Health Centre at Pelham Road.
This promotes a very complete co-ordination of the services.
(b) No Nursery Schools have been established in Wimbledon.
(c) Children between the ages of twelve months and five
years are visited twice a year by the Health Visitors. Debilitated
children are visited more frequently. The Maternity and Child
Welfare Committee have made arrangements whereby debilitated
children requiring convalescent treatment may be sent to
recognised convalescent institutions.
The School Medical Service in Relation to Public
Elementary Schools.
3. SCHOOL HYGIENE.
The sanitary condition of the Public Elementary Schools in
Wimbledon continues to be satisfactory.
Twenty new dual locker desks and forty chairs of a modern
type were provided during the year at Queen's Road Boys'
School, and six new dual locker desks and thirteen chairs at
the Girls' Central School.
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