SCHOOL HEALTH
236. During the year the Report of the Working Party, set up by Government in 1955 to examine the problem of providing a comprehen- sive school health service, was submitted to Government. Pending the submission and study of this report, particularly the degree of imple. mentation the Colony can afford, the scope of the curative aspect of the school health service has been “frozen' at the 1955 level.
137. Broadly speaking there are two aspects to the Service. The first is the control of environmental sanitation and communicable disease as a general public health measure applied to the Government and Government subsidized schools. This aspect of the work continues and, in addition, aid is given when requested for the control of com- municable disease in any registered school. During the year, effort was concentrated on raising the level of immunity to diphtheria and typhoid and the results were more satisfactory than any previously recorded.
238. The problem of providing personal curative services however has been seriously aggravated by the very sharp increase in the size of the population of school age. These services were available on a voluntary fee paying basis to all pupils in Government schools from 1946 onwards; during 1951 and 1952 children in private schools and grant-in-aid schools respectively were included in the scheme. The facilities offered were routine medical examinations at fixed intervals, the treatment of ailments, the correction of physical defects and specialist attention, including dental and ophthalmic treatment with the provision of spectacles at a subsidized price. The tremendous demand for voluntary participation however suddenly swamped the facilities available and in 1955 the scheme therefore had to be frozen, if staff and funds were not to be diverted to the grave detriment of the essential general curative services provided by Government,
239. During 1959 the total participants in the scheme dropped to 26,342 and there has been little more than the maintenance of routine activities as far as the personal services are concerned.
240. One event of considerable importance was the pre-fluoridation dental survey carried out on 10,000 school children during February and March 1960. Dental examinations were carried out on these children in the age groups of 6 to 8 and 9 to 11 in 46 different schools. Further reference is made to the School Dental Service in paragraphs 355 to 359,
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TABLE 21
STATISTICAL SUMMARY OF DENTAL TREATMENT CARRIED OUT DURING 1958 & 1959 IN THE SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE
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printing
مراه و تونی
No. of
Typs of Schoûts
No. of Sch. Child, found to szanite
Extractions
FURALF
Ferm. Decid.
Peru. Devid.
dentally
Operzitegi
pakikwaz
IANAIDINI
Costservative Dressings Perm. Decid
No. of Sch.
praphy
Jactic
CAND.
IN SLABARRA,
6,237
434
1.050
691
65
351
763
Tout= 5.671
Tali = 1,230
#1
*80'!
907
1,331
233
BUL'T
Total = 11,996
Tom - 1,766
1.630
955
IFI
237
123
$42
Total = 2.365
Tocal-
388
TAT'E =[830J
for!
128
FIC
1562
354
Total = 141
(67)
9.407
1958 ..
6.819
4.754
23.737
Total = 11,651
1959..
40+
1.594
0012.
356'1
$,596
Total – 11.35
ION
1.778
15年
3.774
15°C
Isn'z
Total = 1,885
Govorniment - Subsidized Schools
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Honntay
Morrison Rand A
Hot Primary School
1939..
1958.
Private &
Grend
HOOPS
1919 ..
3.760
2
Total = 1,674
7,014
(697) −19001
[
13
Toul= 4.838
12
Total = 123 132
462
727
4,213
351
Tobi= 4,584
Toja) - 387
901
431
11,317
1,717
1.64
5+1
1.034
201 Z
FOT
Total = 14,074
Total = 2,135
SILFT
2,348
Tomalı 18,963
IZ
344
2.631
3,767
BIL'Z= 19941
1,074
*
PACE 959'E
0[5°1 =140]
મ
134
1,810
7958
36,436
14,339
Total = 14,230
Torala
1,576 11,268
1934 ..
11,00
35.0730
Tocat➡ 13,838