[Report 1952] / School Medical Officer of Health, Denbighshire County Council.

  • Denbighshire (Wales). County Council. no2004062613.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / School Medical Officer of Health, Denbighshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the vear. The Summer Term is utilised to complete those schools which, for one reason or another, were not com- pleted earlier in the year, and to re-visit the larger Primary Schools with a reasonable entry during the Spring and Summer Terms, and to carry out re-examinations. During the year, the administration of the School Plealth Service was re-organised, it was decided that all School ]\ledical Record Cards should be hied at the Central Office, leaving only the Subsidiary Medical Cards for retention at the school. With the assistance of the head teachers, a com- prehensive nominal roll of all pupils on the register was prepared, enabling an accurate check to be made of the cards held at the office. In future, head teachers will submit a return of all children admitted, transferred or leaving school, so that the movements of every pupil will be known to the School Health Service. Thus, it is hoped to reduce the clerical work of the teachers, for, under these circum- stances, the School Health Service can accept full responsib- ilitv for medical documentation. In future, the Child Welfare records will be incorpor- ated with the school medical documents, providing a com- plete dossier from infancy to school-leaving age. Notices are sent individually to each parent, indicating the time and place of the examination of the child. A questionnaire regarding the child’s past illnesses, etc., for completion by the parent, is printed on the reverse side of these notices, which are brought to the head teacher by the child, prior to the medical examination. There has been a good response by parents to this individual method of notification, and the Assistant Medical Officers report that many more parents are attending when their children are examined. This is particularly so in the case of senior girls. Schools have been allocated to the Medical Officers in areas. This applies to Assistant Medical Officers as well as to District Medical Officers. As far as possible, the school area corresponds to the areas of the Clinics allocated to the doctors. Inl this way, the Medical Officers feel an added sense of res])onsibility for all the children in their area.