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Redbridge 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Redbridge]
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APPENDIX 19
SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE: STAFF AND SCHOOL CLINICS (As at 31st December, 1967)
1. STAFF OF THE SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE
| Principal School Medical Officer | ||
| I. Gordon, M.D., Ch.B., M.R.C.P.(Lond.)., D.P.H. | ||
| Deputy Principal School Medical Officer A. Shaw, M.B., B.S., D.P.H. | ||
| Principal School Dental Officer E. V- Haigh, L.D.S., R.C.S. | ||
| Principal Medical Officer W. H. Toms, M.B., Ch.B.(Edin.). | ||
| Number of Offices | Number in terms of full-time Officers employed | |
| (1) Whole-time School Health Service | - | - |
| (ii) Whole-time School Health Service and Local Health Service | 7 | 2.25 |
| (iii) General Practitioners working part-time in the School Health Service | 9 | 0.58 |
| (iv) Ophthalmic Specialists | - | - |
| (v) Other Consultants and Specialists | - | - |
| (i) Whole-time School Health Service | - | — |
| (ii) Whole-time School Health Service and Local Health Service (including Orthodontists) | 4 | 3.7 |
| (iii) Part-time School Health Service(including Orthodontists) | 3 | .75 |
| (iv) Dental surgery assistants | 7 | 6.47 |
| (v) Dental Auxiliary | 1 | .925 |
| (c) (i) Senior Speech Therapists | - | - |
| (ii) Speech Therapists | 5 | 3.81 |
| (iii) Assistant Speech Therapists | — | — |
| (d) (i) Audiometricians | — | — |
| (5 Full-time plus 7 Contractual) | 12 | .40 |
| (iii) Orthopaedic Nurses | — | — |
| (iv) Orthoptists | — | — |
| (v) Physiotherapists | 1 | 1 |
| (vi) Remedial Gymnasts | - | - |
| (vii) Occupational Therapists | 1 | 1 |
| (viii) Clinical Technicians employed on Audiometry and vision screening | 3 | 2 |
| (e) (i) Nurses | 45 | 10.84 |
| (ii) No. included at (i) who hold Health Visitors Certificates | 33 | |
| (iii) Nursing Assistants and Trainee Nurses | 1 | 1 |