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The Urban District Council ot Hcton.
To the Chairman and. Members of the Education 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, 1909.
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.
I
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 (x) Use