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Appendix ' B '
1. General Medical/Minor Ailment Clinics.
Attendances made by children at General Medical/Minor
Ailment Clinics 3,015
2. Other Medical Examinations undertaken by School Medical
Officers.
(a) Childen examined for part-time employment 430
(b) Children examined for Entertainment Licences 4
In addition to medical examinations specified as above, School
Medical Officers in their capacity as Assistant Medical Officers of
Health also carried out 672 medical examinations of Teachers, Teacher
Trainees, School Cooks, School Caretakers, and other staff for superannuation
purposes. Arrangements are also made for Chest X-ray
where this is necessary.
3. Recuperative Holidays.
Children sent for recuperative holidays on the recommendation
of School Medical Officers 74
All these children had seaside holidays and when examined on
their return were all found to have benefited.
CHILD GUIDANCE SERVICE
I am indebted to the Chief Education Officer for the following
report on the Child Guidance Service:—
GENERAL
The work of the Wimbledon Clinic proceeded satisfactorily
during 1965 and no interruption was caused by the transfer of responsibility
to the new Borough.
For the Mitcham Clinic, on the other hand, the year's work was
disrupted by the resignations of the psychiatrist and educational
psychologist. This is reflected in the attached statistics. Each of
the posts of psychiatrist, psychiatric social worker and educational
psychologist was vacant for some part of the year, and the last-named
has still not been filled owing to the national scarcity of educational
psychologists.
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