[Report 1919] / School Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1919
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Credit: [Report 1919] / School Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Medical Staff. * School Medical Officer; JAMES WHEATLEY, M.D., D.P.H. Temporary Medical Inspectors: FLORA MACDONALD MACDONALD, M.B., Ch.B. JANE BOYES, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. (Part-time). (Resigned 29 th May, 1919.) Assistant School Medical Officers: DONALD WAINWRIGHT, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H. ELFRIDA H. P>. COGHILL, L.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. AGNES H. NICOLL, M.A., M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H. KATHLEEN PRIESTLEY, L.S.A. School Dentists : JOHN ISHERWOOD SHORROCK, L.D.S. STEPHAN KEENAN, L.D.S. To the Chairman and Members of the Salop Education Committee. Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg to present my twelfth Annual Report as Medical Officer to the Salop Local Education Authority. The year has been one of transition from the limited inspection and limited services of the war years to a more complete scheme. The adoption of a proper scheme of inspection has not been without difficulties owing to the scarcity of doctors and nurses and the very great scarcity of housing accommodation for the staff. The principle adopted in the new scheme is that there shall be continuous supervision of the child from birth to the end of school age. The Education Act of 1918 has put further duties upon the Medical Inspection Committee and its staff of which the most important are the inspection of secondary school children and the provision of facilities for the treatment of elementary school children. A comprehensive scheme for the treatment of school children has to be submitted to the Board of Education. Perhaps the most important new work during the year has been the inauguration of a scheme of dental treatment which it is hoped will become a nucleus for a public dental service.