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Changes (whether additions, depletions, or replacements)
in the staff of the service. „
The staff of medical and dental officers remained unchanged.
It was however necessary for the medical officers to devote
considerable time to Civil Defence duties. The School Medical
Officer and his Deputy were responsible for the administrative
portion of this work, and the Deputy and Assistant Medical Officers
were engaged in training personnel of Ambulance Depots and FirstAid
Posts. Each reception area containing Tottenham school
children was visited by the Committee's medical officers and dental
surgeons, and a number of these districts received repeated visits.
Six nurses and a dental attendant on the staff of the Committee
accompanied school children to the reception areas on September 1st
and remained there in order to assist with treatment, nursing and
medical inspection. They also carried out general cleanliness
inspections, undertook cleansing of children, and visited them in
their billets.
The arrangements for medical, dental and cleanliness inspections
in iorce since tne end or August.
Routine medical Inspection of children who came within the
prescribed age-groups and who were in attendance at the three reopened
schools was carried out In December. All boys and girls
due to leave school at Christmas were also examined and medical
reports forwarded to the Juvenile Employment Bureau. Children
attending all Home Service Classes and schools were Inspected by
the school dental surgeons, and treatment was carried out whenever
accepted.
Every Home Service and school class was periodically visited by
school nurses, who carried out frequent general cleanliness inspections
and cleansed children In these few instances where this procedure
was necessary. The nurses also continued with the work of followingup
children in their homes.
Any additions to or curtailment of the arrangements for the various
forms of treatment or the provision of solid meals or milk!
(1) Treatment. On the outbreak of war all clinic premises were
commandeered lor civil defence purposes, but on September 12th the
Lordship Lane Centre, which had been requisitioned as an ambulance
and stretcher party depot, was vacated. The Minor Ailments and
two Dental Clinics were then immediately re-opened at this Centre
and continued to function without interruption.
Owing to the continued occupation of the Chestnuts and Town Hall
Centres by First-Aid personnel, clinic facilities were no longer
available in the southern portion of the district. To meet this
deficiency a temporary dental clinic was set up on September 27th
in the vacant premises of the West Green Road Day Nursery. Work at
Aural, Ophthalmic, Orthopaedic, and Remedial Exercises Clinics was
resumed early in October and by the end of the year special clinic
services were available as follows:-
Ophthalmic Clinic - one session each fortnight
(previously two sessions per week)
Aural Clinic - One weekly ses£ion (previously two sessions
per week)
Orthopaedic Clinic - onee monthly.
Remedial Exercises Clinic - three sessions per week
(previously seven sessions per week)
(2) Provision of solid meals and milk. Early In October four
feeding centres were re-opened and here all necessitous children
received a hot mid-day meal and two thirds of a pint of fresh milk
daily. On the institution of Home Service Classes milk was supplied
to all children in attendance, free of charge in necessitous cases.
Similar arrangements were made for the pupils attending the re-opened
schools.