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The Urban District Council of Acton.
To the Chairman and Members of the Educational Committee.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
In accordance with paragraph 13 of Circular 576 issued by the
Board of Education in November 1907, we beg to submit the
following report on the schools and school children under the control
of the Local Educational Authority. The report deals with the
period ending December 31st, 1908. This period has been adopted
so as to secure in future reports an effective basis for comparison of
the work done in different parts of the country and to correspond
with the annual period fixed for the closely related annual report of
the Medical Officer of Health.
The report is necessarily incomplete as the provisions of the
Education (Administrative Provision) Act 1907, relating to medical
inspection were not put into operation until the month of April 1908.
The scope of the Report is defined in Circular 596 of the Board
of Education, and this report will follow as closely as possible the
lines laid down in that Circular. As the report is for the information
of the Board of Education as well as of the Local Education
Authority, statements of local circumstances and conditions are
included which may seem superfluous to the latter.
As regards the scope of the report, the Board consider it desirable
that it should cover as much as possible of the ground indicated
under the following heads:—
a. Hygienic conditions of schools.
b. Description of arrangements for co-ordinating School
Medical Service and Public Health Service including (1) Use of
Board's Schedule. (2) Assistance given by Teachers, Nurses,
Attendance Officers, etc. (3) Co-operation of Parents. (4) Disturbance
of School Arrangements.
c. Extent and scope of Medical Inspection during the year.
d. Review of results of Medical Inspection.
e. Relations of home and industrial conditions to health and
physical conditions of children.