[Report 1960] / School Medical Officer of Health, Wolverhampton County Borough.

  • Wolverhampton (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1960
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Credit: [Report 1960] / School Medical Officer of Health, Wolverhampton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    opened officially on 9th June by Dr. P. Henderson, Principal Medical Officer of the Ministry of Education, now provides fully residential accommodation for 120 children with a proper standard of comfort. The staff of the School Health Service finds increasing difficulty in meeting the increasing responsibilities which are placed upon it from year to year and the time has now come when consideration must be given to augmenting the staff. The report also incorporates that of the Principal School Dental Officer, Mr. Liptrot, which describes a service that is meeting staff difficulties with resource and ingenuity that enable it to provide a readily available emergency service for all school children in Wolver¬ hampton and, by agreement, for some in adjacent areas. The new Central Dental Clinic in Pved Hill Street, opened during the year, provides excellent facilities, and an additional clinic became available with the completion of the new Warstones Health Centre. Once again Mr. Liptrot draws attention to the advantage to be gained by adding fluoride to the water supplies, but ignorance and prejudice have to be overcome before tooth rot ceases to continue unabated. I wish to thank my colleagues in the School Health Service for their good work, and the Director of Education and his staff for their unfailing co-operation. On behalf of my colleagues ! wish to express our appreciation to the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee for their continued interest and support. Yours faithfully, J. F. GALLOWAY, Principal School Medical Officer.