[Report 1925] / School Medical Officer of Health, Wolverhampton County Borough.

  • Wolverhampton (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / School Medical Officer of Health, Wolverhampton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (b)—Nursery Schools are not yet established in this Area. (c)—The care of debilitated children under school age falls upon the Health Department. The Medical Officer of Health reports* increased attention paid to children between the ages of one and five years. This will probably result in a larger number of notifications being sent to us in respect of defective children at¬ taining the age of live years. 3.—School Hygiene. The careful attention paid to renovations and repairs is a satisfactory feature of activity, necessary expenditure being incurred in this direction each year. The Committee established in 1922 their own Painting Department which carries out excellent, and to some extent, original work. We have frequently had occasion to note difficulty and delay experienced in effecting the remedy of small structural defects. There would appear to be considerable gain in setting up an Education Works Department capable of dealing promptly with such matters. I understand that this question is now under consideration. No new Schools were built last year, but plans for new buildings—including an Open Air School—are now under consider¬ ation. In one Area, two hutments have been purchased for the temporary use of scholars. Repairs to playgrounds have been effected in two Schools. In two further instances also, folding par¬ titions introduced into schools have effected improvement in class¬ room accommodation. A large sum has been expended on the pro¬ vision of modern furniture, which includes a proportion of tables and chairs for the Scholars t 4.—Medical Inspection. (a)—The examination of Entrants, Intermediates and Leav- *—M.O.H. Animal Report, 1924, page 19.