APPENDIX T-
PROPOSAL FOR THE ORGANISATION OF
 THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE
 

The following memorandum has been received from the West Bengal Government:- a Province can afford it nothing can be better but a cheaper system and necessarily not so good will be to recruit Physical Instructors from amongst passed students of the Medical School (L.M.F.) after giving them one year's training in a College of Physical Education. The scheme will work if a slightly better scale of pay viz Rs. 125-350 is given to them. In addition to the maintenance of a school clinic, they will also be able to take some share in the teaching of Hygiene and the Biological portion of the science subjects and also work as Physical Instructors, Those that are-now employed as Physical Instructors may be gradually absorbed as teachers. This will solve yet another problem, viz., the employment of the existing type of Physical Instructors beyond the age of 45 when their usefulness as Physical Instructors is considerably on the wane. The medical men employed as Physical Instructors will continue to be useful in the medical part of the work and if another younger medical man be employed as Physical Instructor, the continuity in the chain will be established and the work of the clinic also will improve by the addition of another medical man."

2. It is anticipated by the Health authorities that with the abolition of the Licentiate course it may not be possible in due course to induce medical graduates to undertake the dual duties of medical officers and physical instructors. As a short term policy, however, the proposed scheme has much to commend it.