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Scarlet fever 56
Measles 607
Whooping cough 28
Pneumonia 4
Food poisoning 1
Dysentery 4
Tuberculosis 13
Chickenpox 589
Mumps 1,179
German measles 201
Post-infectious encephalitis 3
There were no cases of diphtheria or
poliomyelitis. When pulmonary tuberculosis is
found in a pupil or teacher the Chest Physician is
consulted and where considered advisable
investigations of school contacts are undertaken.
School children, between their thirteenth and
fourteenth birthdays are offered a test for
susceptibility to tuberculosis and BCG vaccination.
During the year 1,086 children received BCG
vaccination.
Health Education in Schools
A planned programme of health education
entitled 'Growing Up' was successfully completed
with groups of teenage girls attending schools in
the Feltham area. The pupils obviously enjoyed
the course and entered into the practical work
demonstrations with considerable enthusiasm.
Mothercraft classes and demonstrations were
given in a number of schools at the request of
head teachers. Groups of schoolgirls were also
shown round the health centres and clinics; this
gave the health visitors the opportunity to
undertake informal health education.
A health education sub-committee consisting of
members of the Health Department staff and an
assistant education officer was set up under the
chairmanship of the Deputy Medical Officer of
Health. The desirability of producing a
co-ordinated plan for health education in schools
was discussed and in order to obtain the views of
head teachers a questionnaire was sent to primary,
secondary modern, grammar and special schools
in the borough. The committee was particularly
anxious to identify the difficulties which head
teachers were encountering and to obtain
information about the form in which assistance
might usefully be given.
The questionnaire is reproduced below together
with the answers to the questions, which have
been tabulated and summarised.
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