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(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 and
breathing exercises and arrangements for open-air or camp
schools.
The Urban District Council of Acton has an area of 2,305
acres, and estimated population at the end of June, 1913, of
60,000 inhabitants.
The average number of children on the books was 9,362,and
the average number of children in attendance throughout the
year was 8,425.
There are in the district 11 schools and 25 departments.