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West Ham 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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School Nursing Staff.
Miss E. Alford Miss C. E. Hutton
Miss D. S. Ayton Miss E. K. Jack
Miss A. Burrows Miss C. H. Jones
Miss E. M. Bussell Miss E. Large
Miss A. J. Costain Miss A. K. McCormack
Miss M. A. Costain Mrs. M. Mace
Miss M. M. Empson Miss I. B. B. Mann
Mrs. E. G. Eyton Miss L. F. Manning
Miss E. Fraser (Knox Road & Miss M. H. Rose
Crosby Road Special Schools) Miss A. Sheehan
Miss L. C. Glover Miss E. R. Tanner
Mrs. C. B. Halls Miss M. E. Tanner
Miss E. D. Harris Miss M. A. Van Ryssen
Miss F. G. Hobbs Mrs. S. Wilderspin (Grange
(Special Enquiry Nurse) Road Special School)
Miss D. Wright.
Nursing Staff, Fyfield Residential Open-air School:
Miss W. M. Barnes, Matron.
Miss M. James, Nurse.
(2) Co-ordination of Departments.
Arrangements for co-ordination of the work of the
School Medical Service with that of other Health Services continue
to be carried out in the manner set out in my previous Reports.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
(3) School Hygiene.
All structural defects relating to heating, lighting and ventilation
are referred to the Committee's Architect (J. H. Jacques,
Esq., F.R.I.B.A.). As stated in my last Report, box desks are
still being gradually substituted for the old dual type of desk.
The cleansing of classrooms and cloakrooms and the drying
of children's clothes, as required, continue on the lines already
set out previously.
At various schools, alterations or improvements were made
in the heating and lighting, and at one school the latrines were
modernized.
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