[Report 1954] / School Health Service, Cornwall County Council.

  • Cornwall (England). County Council. School Health Service.
Date:
1954
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    and 1,116 by Health Visitors. School Medical Inspection sessions totalled 1,306, 562 by District Nurses and 744 by Health Visitors. Hygiene and medical follow-up visits both to homes and schools totalled 4,529, 2,727 being hygiene follow-ups and 1,802 medical follow-ups. The progress in the programme of Health Educational talks men- tioned in last year’s report has been maintained and extended, and talks, demonstrations and films have been given on widely diverse subjects such as dangerous play, growth and activity, and the nervous system. Anatomy, physiology and hygiene have been taught to 14—15 year olds in some secondary-modem schools and opportunities have been given to school-girls to bath babies and leani the fundamentals of mothercnift. Regular mothercraft classes have been given weekly at some schools. In addition the Health Visitors and school nurses have undertaken series of talks to pre-nursing students, to student-teachers and to parent teachers associations. In all this work the nursing personnel have received the support and encouragement of the teach- ing profession.” OTHER WORK OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICERS In addition to the routine medical inspection of children in schools, the School Medical Officers performed the following duties during the year:— School leaving medical reports to the Youth Employment Service ... ... ... ... ... 21 Examinations of children for part-time employment ... 159 Examinations of Boarded-out Children and Child Life Protection Cases ... ... ... ... 586 Sessions at Infant Welfare Centres ... ... ... 750 Examinations of staff for Superannuation purposes ... 45 Examinations of Blind or Partially Sighted Persons ... 81 Examinations of entrants to Teaching Colleges and to the teaching profession ... ... ... ... 190 Various other examinations ... ... ... 73 More and more of the School Doctors’ time is being taken up in work other than routine medical inspections; however, the more enlightened attitude of the present day enables the School Doctors to devote more of their time to true preventive medicine in its many forms. REPORTS BY SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICERS The following notes on the Ser\ice in general are extracted from the reports of the School Medical Officers:—