[Report 1937] / School Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire Council
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / School Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HYGIENIC CONDITION OF THE SCHOOLS. The School Medical Inspectors are required to report any sanitary defects discovered at the time of the medical inspection. These are forwarded to the Secretary for Education with a view to their being dealt with by the Works Committee. In order, however, to obtain a more precise, if more general, idea of the hygienic condition of the schools in the county as a whole, a card has been printed with a series of questions, all of which must be answered in one of three ways, namely, “ good,” “ moderately satisfactory,” and ” unsatisfactory.” The following table gives the information with regard to the condition of the schools at the time of the last visit of inspection and also for the previous year :— Moderately Un- Good. satisfactory. satisfactory. 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 Environment 190 196 100 100 15 17 Classrooms :— Ventilation 94 101 148 145 63 67 Lighting 113 117 144 148 49 48 Heating 88 93 169 171 48 49 Desks . . . . . . . . 206 208 92 92 7 13 Sanitation :— Drainage 156 156 124 121 25 36 Disposal of refuse . . 157 165 138 136 11 12 Sanitary Conveniences Closets—Boys 59 54 158 146 78 100 Girls 59 55 154 147 81 98 Disposal of contents 137 134 113 no 51 65 Urinals 40 41 186 182 66 78 Lavatories 77 79 151 157 74 77 Water Supply :— Drinking 150 157 111 118 45 38 Washing 179 179 98 no 29 24 Cloakrooms :— Accommodation 108 114 155 154 43 45 Means for drying Clothes and Boots 32 30 42 49 230 234 Cleanliness (Schoolrooms and Cloakrooms) . . 146 153 143 143 16 17 Playgrounds 96 78 78 94 131 141 Meals for School Children. The health of the children is likely to be improved by arrangements whereby a really good meal can be provided in the school during the middle of the day, and at the present time the problem of how to do this is being dealt with in individual schools to vain/ing extents by different methods. The number of schools in which a good hot meal is provided is not large, but in many schools something is being done as a result of the initiative of the head teachers, and full credit , and every encouragement should be given to those who try to provide for the needs of the children : in this respect. The Education Committee has authorised the provision of meals on the recom- j mendation of the School Medical Officer for malnourished children from necessitous homes who ; are in attendance at schools where meals are available; but in order to meet the nutritional I requirements of the school children chief reliance has to be placed on the Milk Marketing Board's ] Scheme, particulars of which are given below.