[Report 1938] / School Medical Officer of Health, Barrow-in-Furness County Borough.

  • Barrow-in-Furness (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / School Medical Officer of Health, Barrow-in-Furness County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1938. TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE OF THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF BARROW-IN-FURNESS Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present the Annual Report of the School Medical Service for the year 1938. The Report follows the suggestions of the Board of Education, and is a record of the work carried out amongst the children attending the Public Elementary Schools and the Higher Education Schools of the Borough. The statistical part applies to the end of the year 1938, when Dr. T. A. Seekings was School Medical Officer. He left the service of the Local Author- ity on 31st January, 1939, when I took over duties of the Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer. It has therefore fallen to my lot to prepare the present report. I wish to thank the members of your Committee, and the Director and Staff of the Education Department, for their co-operation during my short term of office. I have the honour to be. Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, A. R. FORREST, Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer. MEDICAL AND NURSING STAFFS : School Medical Officer Thomas A. Seekings, M.D. (Lond.), D.P.H. Assistant School Medical Officers A. R. Forrest, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H. (appointed M.O.H. and S.M.O., 1st February, 1939). F. J. H. Crawford, B.Sc., M.D., D.P.H. Dorothy G. Stewart, M.B., Ch.B. School Dental Officers J. Hughlings Davies, L.D.S. Miss B. I. S. Dewar, L.D.S. School Nurses A. Davis, General Trained. E. Harper, General Trained, C.M.B. Cert., S.R.N. A. M. Rutherford,General Trained, S.R.N. (resigned 31-10-1938). Ophthalmic Officer (part-time) Geoffrey E. Plowright, M.B., Ch.B., D.O.M.S.