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HEALTH EDUCATION
Health Visitors visit schools in the Borough and pass leaflets and
other relevant information to teachers who carried out Health Education
lectures in schools. Also senior Medical and Nursing Staff had talks
with teaching staff on Health Education. There is a growing awareness
of the need for more Health Education in schools. Hackney Borough
Council have agreed to the appointment of a Health Education Officer
and this appointment will be a big help to workers in the field.
STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE
A Principal Medical Officer visits the Hackney and Stoke Newington
College for a lunch time session weekly, advising on all aspects of
health.
HACKNEY COLLEGE FOR FURTHER EDUCATION
2 Principal Medical Officers gave a series of lectures in July,
on the following subjects - Health and Smoking, Drugs, Family Planning,
Personal Relationships and Venereal Diseases.
SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE
The dental staff still continued to work under difficult conditions
during most of the year. It was only in the autumn that the new salary
scale finally introduced for dental surgery assistants started to have
an effect on their recruitment.
Of eighteen Dental Surgery Assistants three are assigned to
Executive Council surgeries, one in a specialist Orthodontic D.S.A.,
and two are Senior D.S.As. These Senior posts were created to ensure
that there is someone to oversee all dental matters at the two largest
dental clinics.
Many visitors came to see the local dental services from all parts
of the world.
Accounts of dentistry for the mentally handicapped, pre-school
children, and expectant and nursing mothers will be found elsewhere in
the Annual Report. There is quite a young staff which provides dentistry
of a very high standard, if rather low in productivity of fillings.
The four dental auxiliaries are very valuable assets both for the
clinical treatment of young children and for dental health education.
The new Health Centre at Somerford Grove which opened in 1971, has
two surgeries for local authority dentists, and another for a general
dental practitioner. A second surgery has been opened at the Richmond
Road Maternal and Child Health Centre, to accommodate a dental auxiliary.
SCHOOL DENTAL INSPECTIONS
73 per cent of the school roll was inspected, 69.8 per cent of
those seen being found to need some form of dental care.