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apparatus had been purchased for the detection of eye defects.
The Keystone and the testing for deafness have therefore
operated together with the minimum of disruption of school
routine.
Health Education in schools will be reported by the Health
Education Officer.
Grange Hill School now has a regular weekly lecture from
the Health Visitor School Nurse. The Head Teacher gave permission
for the girls to visit the new Harlow Hospital and they
much enjoyed this, being conducted round the premises by
young student nurses.
Combined mothercraft and parentcraft forms a very needy
gap in the educational system."
Health Miss K. M. E. Griffiths, Health Education Officer, reports
Education in as follows:—
Schools
"At six schools a health education programme is carried out
which includes discussions on personal relationships and other
health problems which cause concern amongst young people
today. This is surely the most satisfactory way of dealing with
health education so that all of its aspects and wider implications
are put into perspective rather than "highlighting*
certain topics during infrequent visits to a school when the
talks have no continuity and where the speaker has no personal
relationship with the group.
However, talks and discussion groups are given on topics
of importance as and when requested at any of the schools.
These subjects include Personal Hygiene, Dental Health,
Home Safety and First Aid.
Several requests have been made by teaching staffs for
visual aids or health education literature. This is a service
which the health education section is very pleased to supply
and it is hoped that more teachers will make use of it so that
a useful liaison can be set up between the health and education
departments in the implementation of health education
programmes in the school.
One useful project which was carried out at the end of the
year was a small survey carried out amongst Head Teachers of
Secondary Schools in the Borough. A questionnaire was sent
out to discover the amount of health education carried out at
each of the schools and the view of the Head Teacher and Staff
in relation to the teaching of sex education. The response was