[Report 1946] / School Medical Officer of Health, South Shields County Borough.
- South Shields (Durham, England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1946
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1946] / School Medical Officer of Health, South Shields County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE. Annual Report of the School Medical Officer. STAFF. The staff of the School Health Service consists of two whole- time and one part-time assistant medical officers ; one whole-time and one part-time dental surgeons ; the equivalent of seven full¬ time school nurses ; one dental attendant and one nursing assistant. CO-ORDINATION. There was complete co-ordination between the school health service and the Council’s other medical and hospital services. THE SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE IN RELATION TO SCHOOLS MAINTAINED BY THE AUTHORITY. Number of children on the registers at the end of 1946 14,234 Average attendance for the year (91.9 per cent) . 13,139 Number of schools (excluding the School for the Partially Sighted, the Open Air School and the Day Special School) . 30 Number of departments . 49 Number of children on registers of the three special schools at the end of 1946 262 Average attendance at special schools (82.3 per cent) . 213 Medical Inspection. The number of children examined at routine and other in^ spections at maintained Primary and Secondary Schools :—= 1. Routine Medical Inspections. Entrants . 1, ] 52 Second age group . 1,433 Third age group . 1,414 Other routine inspections . 219 Total .. 4,218 2. Other Inspections. Number of special inspections and re-inspections—13,669](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3011598x_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
