A Socialised Medical Service
1933 1933 1930s 21 pages during the whole of the school life of every child by properly qualified teachers under the supervision of the school doctor. The School Medical Service will be attached to the Health Department and not to the Educational. New schools will be of the open-air type, and it wil...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : The Socialist Medical Association
1933
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| Summary: | 1933
1933
1930s
21 pages
during the whole of the school life of every child by properly qualified teachers under the supervision of the school doctor. The School Medical Service will be attached to the Health Department and not to the Educational. New schools will be of the open-air type, and it will be the business of the school doctor to keep a watchful eye, not only upon the school buildings, but also upon everything that takes place within the school. Every child will be carefully examined medically and dentally not less than once every second year, and the examinations will be carried out in the Health Centres usually by the same specialist that is in charge of the Child Welfare Centre, and defects discovered will be dealt with similarly. (f) Mental Disease It is important that insanity should no longer be regarded as a condition for which nothing can be done to relieve or cure, seeing that some physical affection frequently accompanies and is the apparent cause of mental disease, wards for the treatment of early cases are best provided in large general hospitals, and specialists in every branch of medicine should attend regularly at mental hospitals to see cases referred to them. Lower grade mental defectives are best dealt with in colonies where they can be taught and practise occupations suitable to their mental powers. In conclusion it may be useful to refer briefly to those health services which come under more than one sub-committee as described in the above scheme. 1. — MEDICAL EDUCATION Maintenance scholarships must be provided so that boys and girls from the secondary schools may qualify as doctors without cost to their parents. It will also be useful to train as doctors men and women who have already obtained experience of life in other vocations. The doctor of the future will be called upon to teach his patients the laws of health and prevent disease as well as recognise its earliest manifestations and treat it. The preventive principle and preventive trend must, therefore, be introduced into the whole curriculum. Further, it is important that the student should study disease in the situation where it arises — in the homes of the people. In addition to the single State qualifying examination to be taken by all, there will be special courses of training and examinations for those desiring to specialise. Members of the General Practitioner Service (Home Doctors) who show clear indications of an interest in and ability for a special department of medicine or surgery will be able to take such courses and examinations, and will be eligible for assistant hospital appointments in the speciality they select. 13
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