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Report of the County Medical Officer—Education.
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cannot fail to be of benefit to the children. Certain modifications have been introduced into the
Council's arrangements for securing cleanliness. In the scheme which deals exclusively with children
with unclean heads, provision has been made for specially communicating with parents in cases
where the condition is one of only slight degree of uncleanliness. The scheme for dealing with
children suffering with verminous bodies or clothing has been modified so as to hasten the process
of cleansing, and to secure closer co-operation with the local authorities for the purpose of dealing
with clothing, etc., in the homes.
The number of candidates for permanent appointments in the school service and candidates
for scholarship awards who were medically examined increased from 5,984 to 6,045. Special reports
were made in regard to 798 employees who were unable to carry out their duties owing to personal
illness, a decrease of 143, or 15.2 per cent. In addition, 203 claims for exceptional treatment in
respect of illnesses alleged to have been contracted during the course of school duties were
investigated. The pupils in the Council's institutions for higher education, and the London County
Council scholars in attendance at aided secondarv schools, have also been inspected.
Examination
of
Candidates.
the open-air schools at Birley House and Shooters Hill were both kept open throughout the
year. The Kensal House School for tuberculous children has been continued. The playground
classes have largelv increased in numbers and some of them were held in the public parks.
Open air
Schools
7,655 children were examined with a view to admission to special schools ; of these 4,060 were
certified as suitable for admission thereto and the remainder were either returned to the elementary
schools or found to be unsuitable for any of the Council's institutions. The results of the periodical
re-examination of the children in the schools for the mentally and physically defective, are shown in
the report, and a considerable amount of time has been spent on questions relating to family history,
heart cases in physically defective schools, classes for myopes and the partially deaf.
Special
Schools
Many of the school doctors have found it possible to devote time to the investigation ot
special subjects, and the following reports, of which considerable use has been made in subsequent
pages, have been received during the year:—
Special
Reports of
School
Doctors.
School Doctor. Subject.
Dr. Ruth Bahner Open-air classes at Broad-street, Cayley-street, Heckford-strect.
„ E. J. Boome i. Remedial exercise classes, The "Chaucer" School (B. and G.), pp. 61 and 64.
ii. Open air classes at Farncombe-street.
,, Cresswell Burrows Open-air classes at Bow-creek, British-street, the Hay Currie," Oban-street.
„ G. Chaikin i. Footgear of school children.
ii. Remedial exercise class, Catherine-street School, p. 65.
iii. Open-air classes at Canal-road.
„ A. R. Cowell i. Difficulties experienced in obtaining treatment for defects found.
ii. Latent visual defects in school children.
iii. Open-air class, St. Matthias.
„ A. M. Davies i. Maryon-park, Blackheath-road,Creek-road and Bellenden-road school journeys
ii. Remedial exercise class, Hughes-fields School, p. 61.
iii. Open-air class, Lucas-street.
,, Jessie Duncan Remedial exercise class, Eltringham-street (G.) School, p. 66.
,, L. Haden Guest Playground class at Surrey-square School.
„ C. F. Hadfield Remedial exercise class, Moreland-street (G.) School, p. 67.
„ Helen B. Hanson Results of X-ray treatment for ringworm, p. 106.
,, M. G. Edis i. Conditions of school hygiene and arrangements for medical inspection in
Nuremburg.
ii. Penrose-street school journey.
iii. Open-air classes, Sandford-row and West-square.
„ C. T. W. Hirsch i. Comparative investigation of the condition of leavers examined in twenty
elementary schools.
ii. Report on Shooter's-hill open air School, p. 71.
iii. Remedial exercise class, Union-street School, p. 61.
iv. Open-air classes at Eglington-road, Maryon-park and Wood-street.
„ H. R. Kidner i. Holy Trinity school journey.
ii. Remedial exercise class, Frank ham-street, p. 63.
iii. Open-air classes at Alverton-street, Southwark-park and The “Redriff."
„ F. C. Lewis i. Remedial exercise class, Cook's-ground School, p. 68.
ii. Open-air class, Holy Trinity.
„ C. L. Leipoldt i. An investigation into the occurrence of Stiller's signs in children with reference
to cases of malnutrition, pp. 24-30.
ii. Report of school journey of Torriano Avenue school children, pp. 75-82.
iii. Open-air class, New End.
,, Margaret C. Macdonald i. Investigation of the vision of 804 infant children, p. 10.
ii. Ruby-street summer camp. p. 75.
iii. Remedial exercise class, Snowsfields School, p. 67.
,, A. J. Malcolm i. Harwood-road school journey.
ii. Open-air class, Finlay-street, The Peterborough.''
„ T .Muirhead Martin .. Report upon children treated for nose, ear and throat complaints at the Hackney
School Treatment Centre, p. 36.
,, T. J. T.McHattie i. "Mirror writing ' in school children, p. 20.
ii. Remedial exercise class, Hungerford-road (G.) School, p. 66.
iii. Open-air class, Poole's-park.
„ Elizabeth M. Mcvoll Open-air classes at Berkshire-road, Gainsboro-road.
„ R. H. Norman i. Comparison of nutrition of breast and bottle-fed children in Infants' Departments.
p. 31.
ii. Vision of children who have been supplied with spectacles.
iii. Netley-street school journey.
iv. Remedial exercise classes, Prospect-terrace (B.) and Camden-street (G.)
Schools, pp. 61 and 65.