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Committee and the Council's officials. Many requests have been
made during the past year for assistance in ways which are calculated
to increase the efficiency of the efforts made by the
Association for the welfare of the Hornsey scholars, and many
more will doubtless be made. These requests have ranged over
such diverse subjects as the provision of a shower bath at the
swimming bath, the increasing of the facilities and conveniences
at existing grounds, and the provision of trophies, and they are
being met with the utmost consideration.
The Association remains convinced that any efforts which
can be made for the furtherance of organised sport among the
scholars of Hornsey are productive of excellent results, not only
as regards the physical welfare of the children, but also as regards
their training in habits of sportsmanship and good fellowship."
CO-OPERATION WITH PARENTS AND OTHERS.
Arrangements have been made for the distribution to parents
of small booklets giving useful information, not only on educational
matters, but also on questions relating to health. Certain
information from the Board of Education's table of exclusion
periods in infectious disease has also been included. Parents
continue to be present at medical inspections in fairly good numbers,
76 per cent. of those invited having attended during 1927.
The teaching staffs and attendance officers work in close
harmony with the school medical service. At the weekly clinic
held by the School Medical Officer the Chief Attendance Officer
is always present and all cases likely to present difficulty in one
way or another are there dealt with.
The Care Committees have again done most excellent work.
Assistance has been given to parents in the purchase of surgical
appliances, clothing and boots and the provision of convalescent
home treatment. Members of the committees visit the homes of
children who are about to leave the special school for mentally
defective children and keep in touch with these children after they
leave school. It is hoped to extend this work in the near future
to all children leaving any of the special schools to which Hornsey
children are sent. The following table shows the number of cases
which have been provided with milk, cod liver oil and spectacles
through the agency of the Care Committees: —