[Report 1951] / School Medical Officer of Health, Warrington County Borough.

Warrington (England). County Borough Council.

Date:: 1951

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Credit: [Report 1951] / School Medical Officer of Health, Warrington County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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HANDICAPPED PUPILS This is probably the most difficult aspect of our school health service. Although handicapped pupils form a very small proportion of the total, they require a special degree of attention to fit them for their adult life. Too often we are faced with the problem of their disposal, as distinct from their medical treatment and super¬ vision; as will be realised from the appropriate section in this report, we are unable to fulfil our duty to many of these children by reason of scarcity of accorrmodation, both national and local, in special schools and institutions. This problem is by no means con¬ fined to Warrington, but every effort should be made to remedy this deficiency (see notes on the Local Authority’s proposals for special school accommodation). ANCILLARY SERVICES AND HEALTH EDUCATION These have proceeded on normal lines and there is every reason to believe the health of the schoolchildren has been thereby improved. In addition to the nursery classes, day nurseries, though outside the sphere of the School Health Service, have contributed much towards the education of the mothers of potential schoolchildren. School meals and milk also play a silent and unspectacular, but, if we may believe past experience, substantial part in improving child nutrition and physique.