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2.
Any changes (whether additions, depletions or replacements) in the
staff of the Service,
Owing to illness, Dr. Stalker, Senior Assistant Medical Officer,
was absent from duty from the 24th.September, 1940, and was still incapacitated
at the end of the year. Dr. Nora Webster was therefore
appointed in a temporary capacity, on a part-time sessional basis, to
carry out the duties of an Assistant School Medical Officer.
Mr. A.E.Fisher, one of the Dental Surgeons, obtained a commission
in the Dental Branch of the R.A.F.V.R., and temporarily relinguished
his dental duties in Tottenham on November 15th., 1940. In view of the
reduced school population owing to evacuation, it was considered unnecessary
to fill this vacancy, and the remaining two Dental Surgeons
have been able to deal adequately with the dental supervision and treatment
of the existing school population.
There have also been changes in the clerical staff owing to liability
to military service and secondment to Civil Defence work.
Any changes in the arrangements for medical, dental and cleanliness
Inspections.
During the year under review, efforts were made to maintain as
complete a service as possible, and the general arrangements for
medical, dental and cleanliness inspections approximated closely to
those of a normal year. Owing to evacuation of a proportion of the
school population, however, there was a reduction in the number of
children inspected, compared with previous years. The following table
gives a summary of the inspections carried outs:-
A. Routine Medical Inspections.
Entrants 747
Second Age Group 592
Third Age Group 661
Total - 2,000
Other Routine Inspections 274
Grand Total - 2.274
B. Special Inspections +
Re-inspections - 19,346
In addition to routine medical inspections, the directions outlined
in the Board of Education Circular 1523, have been followed. Rapid medical
surveys of school children have been carried out with particular
regard to the state of nutrition and the cleanliness of the children concerned.
Those found to be suffering from any degree of malnutrition were
at once recommended for supplementary nourishment, e.g., school meals,
and/or free milk. Whenever necessary, children were referred to the
Nutrition Clinic where they obtained treatment, and were also kept under
observation. Medicinal foods, such as Cod Liver Oil & Malt, were supplied
in those cases recommended by the Medical Officer,
SPECIAL SURVEY OF NUTRITION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
Total
Examined
A
B
C
D
3,156
518
2,311
298
29
(16.4%)
(73.2%)
(9.5%)
(0.9%)
Contd.