[Report 1931] / School Medical Officer of Health, West Bromwich.

  • West Bromwich (England). Council.
Date:
1931
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    r SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE. To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit to you my first Annual Report as School Medical Officer. My predecessor, Or. W. Stott, was responsible for the administration of the Department during the greater part of the year to which this report relates. In September, Dr. Stott terminated his period of office in West Bromwich on his appointment as Medical Officer of Health of the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark, and I took over the duty of School Medical Officer on Tth December, 1931. As a matter of convenience I am preparing the present Annual Report, although my responsibility for the work of the Department is limited to the last month of the year, and hence the greater part of the information contained herein is outside my personal cognisance. During the year under review, the primary and funda¬ mental work of the School Medical Service, viz., the supervision of the health of the school child through the agency of general routine and special medical inspections, has been systematically and thoroughly carried out. The treatment of the many physical defects and ailments dis¬ covered in this manner has been obtained partly through agencies provided by the Corporation, i.e., School Clinics and Hallam Hospital, and partly by reference to private doctors or to the West Bromwich and District and other Voluntary Hospitals. The results of the past year’s work in the School Medical Service can only be imperfectly presented by statistical tables, even when accompanied by many pages of explanatory matter, but it will be obvious to even the most casual reader of this report that much careful and painstaking work has been done.