[Report 1946] / School Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight.

  • Isle of Wight (England). Council. nb2013008294.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / School Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ISLE OF WIGHT County Education Committee. Ri'POR'r or I'HI-: SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER FOR THE Vl'AR 194G. 'Fhe passing dI' the Education Act, 1944, making it the duty ol’ every Local Education Authority to provide a comprehensi\e scheme of free mcdictil treatment for children in attendance at maintained schools, is a further step towards the formation of an A1 nation and it is unfortunate that the National Health Service Act could not have been o[)erative at the same time. Many Local Education Authorities, while waiting for the latter Act to become operative, delayed carrying out the provisions of the medical treatment sections of the former Act. 'Fhis is unfortunate hut understandable. In the Isle of Wight, no new arrangements for treatment have yet been made, but, at the moment of writing this, a conference with the Royal I.W. County Hospital has been arranged and it is hoped that by the 1st April, 1947, a comprehensive schem.e for hospital treatment will be ready to function. At the end of the year the number of schools under the County Education Committee was 68, viz., 58 Primary with 6,795 children on the registers, seven Secondary Modern with 1,5.30 children, one County Huilding School with 112 children and two County Secondary Crammar Schools with ()66 children. 'Fhe total numlx'r of children on the regist<‘rs in all schools at tlu' end of the year was therefore 9,103. 1 he sections in the re])ort are numbered as in the .Ministry of Education’s schedule.