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19.—SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
Medical inspection of children attending Secondary Schools
in the Borough is delegated by the Middlesex County Council
to the Hornsey Education Authority. The work is carried out
by private practitioners in the boys' departments, and in the
girls' departments by the Assistant School Medical Officer, all
under the general supervision of the School Medical Officer, who
submits the results to the County School Medical Officer. No
provision is made for treatment.
20 —CONTINUATION SCHOOLS.
No provision is made for medical inspection or treatment of
pupils in attendance at Continuation Schools.
2 1—EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG
PERSONS.
The Juvenile Employment Office is in the Education Offices
at 79, Crouch End Hill. The Juvenile Employment Committee
meets there on the same evenings as the Central Care Committee.
Both of the Committees are attended by the School
Medical Officer, whose advice is available on medical matters.
The district being almost purely residential, there are no conditions
of employment detrimental to the health of children and
young persons in the area.
22—SPECIAL ENQUIRIES.
Dr. Crowden, Lecturer in Physiology in the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, conducted a very interesting
and instructive special enquiry into loss of hearing in the
Elementary Schools of the Borough by means of the gramophone
audiometer.
23—MISCELLANEOUS.
Medical examination of new teachers is carried out by the
School Medical Officer at the time of their appointment. Occasionally
also he furnishes a report at the request of the Committee
in the case of prolonged absence of a teacher from duty
on account of ill-health. Scholarship candidates are specially
examined medically if there is any reason to doubt their physical
fitness to undertake secondary education.