View report page

72
(7) Female Clerk and Assistant to
Dental Surgeon (whole time)
(8) Female Attendant—General Help Duties in connection
(part time). with Maternity &
Child Welfare.
Duties of Staff.—
The School Medical Officer undertakes all Routine and
Special Examinations, is Medical Officer to the Minor Ailment
Clinic, Surgeon to the Ophthalmic Clinic and Anaesthetist to
the Dental Clinic.
The Dental Surgeon works for five sessions in the
Chiswick Clinics and for six sessions at Acton. Consequently,
six-elevenths of her salary is paid to Chiswick by the Acton
Borough Council.
The School Nurses attend all Routine and Special
Inspections held by the School Medical Officer, conduct
frequent Hygienic Inspections at the Schools, undertake
Home Visiting, and perform nursing duties in the Clinics.
Nurse Cruiekshank is appointed to the Strand Schools,
Nurse Thompson to the Belmont Schools and Glebe Infants'
and Nurse Chitty to the Hogarth Group of Schools.
Each Nurse is apportioned a district for Home Visiting,
which work she does in connection with her duties of a Health
Visitor.
Nursing duties in the Minor Ailment Clinic are shared
by the three Nurses, while Nurse Thompson also attends the
Dental and Ophthalmic Clinics. This unequal distribution of
the nurses' work in the School Clinics, arranged for more
convenient working in those Clinics, is equalised by Nurse
Cruickshank and Nurse Chitty, sharing the duties in the
Ante-Natal and Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics.
2—Co-ordination.
The various organized activities undertaken by the
Council for the physical welfare of the children are intimately
connected, for the same Medical, Dental and Nursing Staff are
engaged in Ante-Natal, Maternity and Child Welfare and
School Medical work. As this arrangement has now been in
vogue in Chiswick for some years, a personal knowledge of