[Report 1954] / School Medical Officer of Health, Glamorgan County Council.
- Glamorgan (Wales). County Council. nb2014013905.
- Date:
- 1954
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1954] / School Medical Officer of Health, Glamorgan County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present the Annual Report on the work of the School Health Service for year ended the 31st December, 1954, which has been prepared by my Deputy, Dr. R. T. Bevan, to wl I am greatly indebted for his valuable assistance at all times. The statistical details are compiled from the returns made by the Divisional Medical Officers, reflec the work done by the Medical Officers, School Nurses, and others in carrying out their routine duties, I am pleased to record that their interest in the health of the pupils is as keen now as ever. This is £ should be ; if it were not so, the service would soon become discredited now that parents can readily ob advice from the family doctor and, if required, the paediatrician at the hospital. The School Medical Ofl must maintain a link with both, particularly where the treatment and education of handicapped pupi concerned, and also with the teaching staff, who are always most co-operative. The medical inspection of children during their first year at school, during the last year at a prim school, and during the last year at a secondary school, has been adhered to and all children in these gro have been examined, 31,360 routine examinations being made, which is less than in 1953. There is a reduction in the number of special examinations and re-examinations. Much time has been devoted to the ascertainment of handicapped pupils, 150 of whom have t newly placed in Special Schools during the year. Previously it has been frustrating, not only to the ; but also to many parents that there have been few vacancies available for certain categories, in partici the Physically Handicapped and Educationally Sub-normal. Early in the year the opening of “The Hendre” Residential School for Boys in the latter categ was an event which had been eagerly awaited. This school has settled down to a happy regime aUi already showing results in the steady progress of the boys in attendance. Mr. I. G. Anderson, the Hi master, who has contributed an account of the first year, and his staff are to be congratulated on the g progress made. The problem of boarding school provision is not entirely solved, however, as there] 225 awaiting admission, mo.stly girls, and a new school for them is still needed. Following unavoidable delays the building of the school for Physically Handicapped children, w has been so much in the mind of the Committee, will soon be commenced at “Erw’r Detyn,” Penarth. the meantime many of the children awaiting admission are being provided for by home tuition, 46 b assisted by this means. 'I'he care of spastic children lias received considerable attention recently, the impression often b given that they are a neglected group. This has not been so in Glamorgan, where all available resor have been called upon pending the erection of the new school, not only for this section of the physii](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28844853_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
