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and not attractive. Now they find it, too, demands, and should
receive, trained and skilled intelligence, and they develop a
legitimate pride in their own capacity for doing it well.
The scheme works without any friction, thanks to the fact
that the Teachers in the schools and the Matron at the creche have
worked whole-heartedly for its success. Without such co-operation
it could not have been carried through.
The Committee pay 6s. a lesson for six girls; that is, 36s.
a course of 6 lessons.
The Committee of the creche receive also £15 for the Matron,
who is recognised as a teacher on this subject. One member of
the Education Committee is appointed to the Committee of the
crêche, and one of the Medical Officers is an Hon. Medical Officer
and a member of the House Committee of the creche.
Control of Infectious Disease.
The School Medical Officers are respectively Medical Officer
of Health and Assistant Medical Officer of Health, so that the
work of the two Departments is closely correlated. During the
year under review new arrangements were made, by which all
children from Scarlet Fever or Diphtheria, and all contacts are
examined by the Medical Officers before their return to school. A
form, signed by one of the Medical Officers, is sent to the Head
Teacher authorising him, or her, to re-admit the child.
Swabs are taken of all suspicious sore throats, as well as of
actual Diphtheria cases and their contacts. The details are given
in the following paragraphs.
Scarlet Fever.
The district was comparatively free of Scarlet Fever, and,
although neighbouring districts suffered severely from the disease,
in no school was the incidence of the disease heavy.