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7
CO-ORDINATION.
The greatest possible degree of co-ordination exists between the
School Medical Service and the Public Health and Maternity and Child
Welfare Departments. The administration of the service is controlled
by the Education Committee's Medical Officer who is also Medical Officer
of Health and Medical Officer to the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee.
The main object always to be kept in view is the unification of the
various health services made available by the Local Authority, and, as
far as possible, to supervise child life from the ante-natal stage to the
termination of school days and (by passing on the medical records obtained
under the scheme for National Health Insurance and Factory Service)
until late adolescence.
The propaganda of recent years has resulted in a steady increase in
the attendances at the ante-natal clinics and appreciation of the infant
welfare centres and day nursery by the mothers of the district, thus
contributing as part of the scheme for ensuring a healthier school entrant.
The attainment of this end is further assisted in Tottenham by the
establishment in 1937 of a nursery school and further development of
nursery class provision, in the schools, for children under the age of
five years.
The School Medical Service continues to work in close co-operation
with the local Ministry of Labour Employment Exchange by means of
the Juvenile Employment Central Bureau, thus helping to ensure that
school leavers are placed in occupations for which they are at least
physically suited.