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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.
(/) Methods employed or available for the treatment of
defects, including work of School Nurses.
(g) Review of action taken to detect and prevent the
spread of infectious diseases, including closure of schools or
exclusion of children from schools.
(h) Review of methods adopted for dealing with blind,
deaf, mentally or physically defective and epileptic children.
(i) Review of methods of instruction in personal Hygiene
and temperance in Public Elementary Schools, including
physical or breathing exercises and arrangements for open air
or camp schools.
The Urban District of Acton has an area of 2,304 acres
and an estimated population at the end of June 1909 of 56,000
inhabitants.
The average number of children on the books was 8,726
and the average number of children in attendance throughout
the year was 7,782
There are in the district 11 schools and 23 departments.
In last year's report a description was given of all the schools
within the district and it will suffice in this year's report to
simply point out the improvements which have been carried
out.