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BOROUGH OF BRENTFORD & CHISWICK.
EDUCATION ACT, 1921.
REPORT ON THE MEDICAL INSPECTION AND TREATMENT OF
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN FOR THE YEAR ENDING
31ST DECEMBER, 1939.
To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit the following report on the work of the
School Medical Service for the year 1939.
Owing to the outbreak of hostilities in September of
1939, report is of necessity in an abbreviated form and
should be regarded in the nature of an interim report, only
such information as required by the Board of Education being
given.
1. STAFF
No material changes in the numbers and duties of the
staff took place during the year.
2.- SCHOOL HYGlENE AND ACCOMMODATION.
The accommodation of the schools in the Borough
is of course fairly constant and may be taken as set out in
my report for 1938. My remarks in that report relating to
general hygiene also apply, as by reason of the outbreak of
War tho Hogarth group of schools have so far not been
affected by the construction of the new arterial road.
3- MEDICAL INSPECTION.
As required by the Board of Education, the following
inspections were made during the year:-
(a) Routine Inspections. Of the three code groups,
Entrants, Intermediates (viz. those of about eight years of
age who have just been, or about to be, transferred from the
Infants' to a higher school) and a group who will be twelve
years during the year. There is also a fourth group of
children of other ages who have not been examined in one of
the above groups.
This fourth group consists of children who were examined
a few weeks before they left school and the findings were
entered on special forms for the information of the Juvenile
Employment Committee.
19 Entrants, 48l Intermediates, 488 Third Age Group
and 284 Others (1272 in all) were examined during the year.
(b) Special Inspections:- These arc special inspections
made by the School Medical Officers of children suffering from
some special disease or disability and are generally seen at
the Minor Ailment Clinic. The figure below does not include
the inspections of special groups of cases, such as cripples
or children suffering from mental deficiency or those attending
clinics other than the Minor Ailment Clinic, or school
classes in which there have been cases of certain infectious
diseases.
959 Special Inspections were made during the year.