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REPORT OF THE WORK OF THE
SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE.
Arranged According to the Suggestions made by the Board
of Education, December, 1920.
1. STAFF.
The Staff consists of the School Medical Officer, who is also
Medical Officer of Health, two Assistant School Doctors, a wholetime
Dentist, a part-time Ophthalmic Surgeon, five School Nurses and
a Dentist's Assistant.
2. CO-ORDINATION.
Co-ordination of the work of the School Medical Service with
that of other health services obtains in the case of Infant and Child
Welfare work:-
(i). The School Medical Officer is Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Voluntary Child Welfare Society which is responsible
for half the District.
(ii.) One of the Assistant School Medical Officers superintends
the work of the Council's Welfare Centre which is responsible for the
other half.
(iii.) The School Dentist attends to the teeth of children sent from
the Welfare Centre, and also to the teeth of expectant and nursing
mothers sent from the Centre or from the Ante-natal Clinic.
(iv.) The Ophthalmic Surgeon also attends to cases sent from the
Welfare.
Nursery Schools have not yet been established in the District.
Debilitated Children under school age have received the
benefit of the Milk (Mothers and Children) Orders, of 1918, and
particulars are shown under the report of the Medical Officer of
Health.
3. SCHOOL HYGIENE.
There are 20 provided schools with 57 departments, 3 non-provided
schools with 6 departments, and 3 special schools with 4 departments.
All the provided schools have central halls, one for each department,
with the exception of Higham Hill Temporary Infants. The nonprovided
schools are deficient in this respect. Twelve of these schools
are ground floor buildings, 8 having separate buildings for departments,
the remaining 4 having 2 or 3 departments under one roof. Two
schools have 2 storeys, and 4 schools one storey, the remaining 2 being
partly ground and 1-storeyed buildings. The non-provided schools are
ground floor buildings.