[Report 1955] / School Medical Officer of Health, Herefordshire / County of Hereford County Council.

  • Herefordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / School Medical Officer of Health, Herefordshire / County of Hereford County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thanks largely to the kindness and co-operation of Mr. F. H. Dale, Mayor of Leominster, the Authority has been able to produce a film entitled “ Physical Education in the Primary School,” featuring children from Leominster County Primary School. The film, dealing with a typical playground lesson, gives ample evidence of an improved standard of physical education in the county, and reveals a high quality of movement, resulting from an appreciation of the individuality of the child. HOUSECRAFT INSTRUCTION. A successful experiment was initiated at Kingstone Secondary Modern School, where there is an instruction “ flat ” as well as the Housecraft Room. Fourth year girls are released from other subjects in pairs to work practically full time in the flat for two weeks. One of the pair is changed each week so that there is always an experienced girl in charge. The fiat is treated as a cc house ”, visitors are received and entertained according to the time of day. Work is carried on as it would be in a family household in the kitchen, living room, bedroom and bathroom. The last mentioned is used by the girls, and the bedroom provides the facilities of a sick room for scholars taken ill during school hours. Instruction in food values, the planning and preparation of meals, the care and laundering of clothes, and in personal and household hygiene was covered by all schemes of work. In ten housecraft rooms girls regularly planned and cooked their own dinners for the day on which they attended from contributing schools. Each girl paid ninepence for dinner unless entitled to free dinners. INDEX Page B.G.G. Vaccination at School 22 Cases reported to Local Health Authority 14 Child Guidance Centre 15 Committee Members 1 Dental Inspection and Treatment 12 Diphtheria Immunisation 11 Ear, Nose and Throat Defects 9 Employment of Children 21 Eye Diseases, Defective Vision and Squint 8 Handicapped Pupils 14, 17 Housecraft Instruction 24 Independent Schools 21 Infectious Diseases 13 Maintained Schools—Medical Inspection 5 Mass Radiography 22 Medical Examination of Prospective Teachers 22 Minor Ailment Clinics 11 National Survey of the Health and Development of Children 21 Nursery Schools 21 Orthopaedic and Postural Defects 9 Physical Condition of Pupils 8 Physical Education 23 Physiotherapy 10 Principal School Dental Officer’s Report 11 Sanitary Inspection of Schools 21 School Buildings 22 School Meals 23 School Milk 23 Skin Diseases 10 Special Schools 5, 14 Speech Therapy 16 Staff 4 Tuberculosis in Children 21 Uncleanliness 13