[Report 1947] / School Medical Officer, Somerset County Council.

  • Somerset (England). County Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / School Medical Officer, Somerset County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/32 (page 17)
    Film. In the summer a film showing physical activities in four schools was niiule. The film iknuonstrates, as no woials can, I he modern methods of adapting I he Syllahns of I'hxsical d'raining hrought onl hy IIk‘ l»oafd of I'hhicalion in It has fi'ci'ived much praise and apprecialion from ()i'ganisei's. and It is Majestv’s Inspectors; it has pj'oved extremely nsefid at onr own teachers' classes, and is much enjoyed and appreciated by children. Physical Recreation. I’Aening classes in physical recreation (Keep-fit, (tymnastics, Jtoxing, Kencing, I>ancing) have heen held at the following centres:— Batcomhe, Carhamplon, Coxley, (h'ewkorne, J<]ast Ilarjkree, Midsomer Norton. Frome, Ilminsler, West Kydford, Lyng, Meare, Minehead, North <hirry, Nortli- nioor (ji’een. Street, d’annton (o), Timshnry, Watchet, Wellington, Weston-super- i\lare (5), Whitchurch, Wells, Keynshain, Portisliead, Nailsea, t'levedon. CHILD GUIDANCE. For the first six months of the year, work in this section was Ciirried on under difficulties (wving to lack of Staff. The County Psychologist, kfrs. H. S. Anthonx'-, resigned in January, and her successor. Miss 1. L. Scott, started work in September. During the interval the Psychiatrists did their own mental testing on clinic cases, but this necessarily reduced the number of cases which could he seen. The Psychiatric Social Work continued to be carried out l)y Miss Neal until July, when Miss J. W. Hasler was appointed for Westonsu2)er-AIare and the north of the County. Clinics have been held throughout the year at Weston-super-Mare, Taunton, Bridgwater, Yeovil, (ilastonbury and Frome, but with the increased staff it was possible tor the last quarter to hold txvo sessions a week at both Taunton and Weston-super-Mare and a regular monthly Clinic at Frome. Besides the regular individual, day-to-day work of the Clinic, members of the Child Guidance Team have carried out more general investigations. A survey was made of educational bachwarduess in children of average intelligence, and the association of retardation in school subjects with domestic insecurity was noted in a large proportion of cases. This survey was made the subject of a short paper at the llegional Tnter-Clinic Conference in October. The Director visited Switzerland in September and had 0])povtunities of visiting Swiss Child Guidance C’liuics, Ap])roved Homes, Remand FTomes atnl Observation Centres. He brougbt back to England details of a new techniqm' foi’ investigating the emotional life of children, and members of the team hax'e employed this technique a)ul ai’c jaoxing its value as an adjunct to the standard methods of investigation. They hope to make a report at a. later date after further experience. The work for the year can be summarized as follows:— Cases referred ... Cases investigated by Ps3^chologists ... Cases seen by Psyebiatrists Diagnostic School and Home Visits paid by Psychologists Ifome Visits and Clinic Interviews by Ps.ychiati'ic Social Woi'kers Hostel Visits by Psychiatric Social Workers School Visits by Psychiatric Sociiil Workers 3'2P, 177 807 70 1,141 00 143