[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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    ESSEX EDUCATION COMMITTEE. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER I FOR THE YEAR 1938. 1. Area, Population and Staff. (.a) Area and Population. Tlie population of the Oeograpliical County of Essex accordinfi; to the Regis- trar Oenej'al’s estimate at inid-year, 1932, was 1,793,200, allocated as follows :— (1) Administrative County Area, within which the Essex County Council is res])onsible for :— (n) Elementary (and also Secondary) Education .. 693,020 (b) Secondary Education only .. .. 548,980 (2) County Boroughs .. .. .. .. 551,200 The figures for 1933 are not yet available. In area (1) (a) with an acreage of 927,500, there are 439 Elementary Schools (three more than in 1932), consisting of 235 Non-provided and 204 Council. The Council Schools include three Special Schools for the Mentally Defective, one Open-Air School, Special Classes for the Physically Defective, and one Special Class for the Partially Blind. There are 551 dej^artmeuts with number on books of 105,474, an average attendance of 93,349, which is an increase of 3,906 over that for 1932*. There are nine Secondary Schools with accommodation for 3,470 pupils. Area (1) (6) contains 10 secondary schools, with an accommodation for 4,492 pupils, and eight Technical and Art Schools with 1,267 pupils on books. In the Administrative County there are also eleven aided Secondary Schools with a total number on books of 3,782, and a further nine recognised Secondary Schools with 1,915 pupils oji books. Except in the case of one aided school, routine medical inspection under the County Scheme was not carried out in these schools. (b) Staff, d-c. The following changes in the Medical, Dental and Nursing Staffs took place during 1933 :— *Note.—On 1st October, ]!)33, Shoeburyness and Ea.stwood, wbieb at 1!>31 ('cnsii.s had a total acre* of 3,854, and a total po]>ulation of 10,3lH), were transferred to Soulliend-on-Sea C«ia Borough. 1’he three schools in this area have not been included in the figures given ala)