[Report 1933] / School Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council.

  • Essex County Council
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / School Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Centre. No. Enrolled. Finchinofiokl (’onffreoutional .Mixed School County Higli School, liraintrce County High School, Chelinsi'ord Uuninow C.K. School Halstead Council School County High School, Colchester County High School, Colchester The Grammar School, Maldon 21 74 77 39 54 55 70 05 led to increasingly better informed methods of Physical Training being used in the schools. 11. Provision of Meals, &c. During the year similar arrangements to tho.se set out in my Report for 1932 have been followed in selecting and supervising children recommended for meals. In the last quarter of the year further facilities wore provided by the Committee in that milk, or alternatively cod liver oil and malt, could he provided for necessitous children on the recommendation of the School Medical Officer. These facilities are a helpful addition to the milk clubs, and provision of cod liver oil at a cheap rate is already in existence. The following is a short account of the call on these facilities :— tl) Meals :— (a) Dagenham Area. The arrangements for the j)rovision of meals at Dagenham were continued during 1933 on the same lines as in the previous year, there being four centres; 134,606 meals were provided. (b) Grays and Tilbury Area. In view of the small numbers, the feeding of necessitous children at Grays was discontinued temporarily at the end of A])ril, 1933. The arrangements were also discontinued at Tilbury on the closure of the schools for the Summer Holidays. The feeding of children was re-commenced at Tilbury on 12th December, 1933. (c) Pitsea Area. The Committee made arrangements witli the Pitsea Unemployment Relief Distress Fund Committee lor the feeding of about 30 necessitous school children at Pitsea for a short period in the Spring of 1933. (11) Milk and Cod Liver Oil and Malt. A number of children have been supulied with milk in school and cod liver oil and malt under the Committees Scheme for periods up to six weeks and a few tor longer periods when recommended by the School IMedical Officer.