[Report 1965] / School Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1965
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Credit: [Report 1965] / School Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HEALTH EDUCATION by Mi SS ]. M. 1\ K I- I I N( > There are now thirteen Health Education Officers in the Education Committee's service. Ihe number attached full-time to particular schools has been reduced from five to three to meet one resignation and the increasing number and size of schools. A boys’ school has the services of a health education officer for one after¬ noon a week and the number of boys receiving instruction in boys’ classes in mixed schools is increasing gradually though the increase is hindered by shortage of health education officers. No rigid syllabus or method of tackling the work is followed, though it continues to fall under three main headings: teaching, counselling and home visiting. The teaching situation brings pupils and health education officers together regularly; understanding and confidence are built up and development then takes place along a variety of lines. Matters of behaviour are discussed through coun¬ selling. Infants’ schools are sometimes visited as a means of helping the girls in understanding young children. When a headteacher thinks it desirable a visit is made by the officer to the home of a pupil to foster a better relationship between home and school. Headteachers value the health education officer’s wide training and experience and recognise that there is not only a place but also a need for them in schools which at present cannot fully be met.