[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Hindley Local Board / U.D.C.

  • Hindley (Wigan, England). Local Board.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Hindley Local Board / U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    die ©tmcrtticm Committee of ©iitMeji. Medical Officer’s Report AND / SUMMARY OF WORK PONE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE. Council Offices, Bindley. The Chairman and Members of the Education Committee of the Urban District Council of Hindley. Gentlemen, The Report and Summary of the work herewith presented done in your Schools is not what you contemplated twelve months ago, when you provisionally appointed me to make a beginning of the Medical Inspection of the Children. The Board of Education in its Schedule and Circular 596 of August last, clearly defined the objects of the inspection, and the method to be followed. I have used the Schedule, and give you the details asked for on pages 5 and 6 of the above Circular, as nearly as possible. There are 13 Schools on fairly open sites, erected at different periods ; some of them built originally as school chapels. The ventilation of all such buildings leaves much to be desired. This question of ventilation is difficult to deal with—finality has not been reached, and I think it was only last year the Board of Education itself revised its own bye-laws. The most modern and simple system, as well as successful, I have any knowledge of is that introduced by the Stafford County Council, which gives 45 inches of area opening per child, with