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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.
(f) 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 sf 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 Council of Acton has an area of 2,304
acres, and estimated population at the end of June, 1910, of
57,000 inhabitants.
The average number of children on the books was 8,997,
and the average number of children in attendance throughout the
year was 8,122.
There are in the district 11 schools and 23 departments.
In former reports, a description has been given of all the
Council's schools, during 1910 the following improvements have
been carried out.