[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CO-OPERATION WITH TEACHERS, SCHOOL WELFARE OFFICERS AND VOLUNTARY BODIES I agiai'ii reco'rd my appreciation of the help given by the teachers iin connection with the clerical work niecessitatod by medical inspec- tioms and in the weighing of children. I also add my thanks to the School Welfare Officers and tO' the National Society for the Preventioini of (Cruelty to Ohiidren for their eo-operation in dealing witli cases where children were neglected or (required isome foami of in’otection. PROVISION OF MILK AND MEALS The numlber of children taking milk in school in October, 1955, was 22,810 or 79.0'5%, cx>mpared with 22,673 or 80.6% in the previO'Uis year. It vras necessary to continue supplies of sterilised milk for one school for which daily deliveries of pasteurised milk could not be arranged. At another (school, witli twelve childlren on roll, the sup])ly of milk tablets during the Summer and recomstituted National Dried Milk dirn’ing the Winter, was arranged owing to the imixDSisibility of obtaining suitalble liquid milk. The supplty of liquid millk from approved sources was arranged^ for ad! othei* 'schools—^94.1% beng pasteurised and 4.4% tuberculin) tested. The number of children taking mealls during the year was 14,525 (50.7%), compared with 13,465 children (48.12%) in the previous year. The increased percentage indicated a return to the dem'and prior 'to the increased charge per meal imposed in /Mardh, 1953. Seven new school canteens were op>ened, including two at new schools. MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR ADMISSION TO TRAINING COLLEGES, ETC. All candidates for admission to Training Colleges, etc., are ti*equired to undergo aln examination by the School Medical Officer of the larea in which they are resident. Entrants to the teaching profession, other than thoise who have completed an approved course of training, are to 'be examined by the School Medical Office/r of the Local Educatibn Authority by wliom they are appointed. During the year a tota!l of 78 candidates for admission to Training Colleges and 21 icntrants to the teaching professiion were examined by the medical staff of the School Health Service.