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The School Attendance Officers have assisted in seeing that children with minor
ailments or uncleanliness attend the Clinics provided; and they have also helped in
encouraging parents to obtain special treatments which have been recommended.
It would be impossible for me to close my remarks on co-operation without
expressing my personal indebtedness to my colleagues in general practice, who at
no small inconvenience to themselves have on numerous occasions assisted me
materially in cases which have shown some medical or social difficulty. I have on
all occasions received the greatest courtesy and the kindliest co-operation and the
help which they have given to me has been offered most generously and in the
highest spirit of public enterprise.

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children have carried out
their work in a very estimable way and have maintained a high level of co-operation
with your officers. It may be that the Society does not carry out an enormous
amount of work in Barking; this I think is a tribute to the success achieved by your
own work, but by the same token the cases with which they do deal must be more
difficult than they otherwise would be, because so far as your officers are concerned,
cases are usually only turned over to the Society after all other available resources
have been exhausted.
(13) BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.
I find that I cannot add to my report of last year in which I stated that in this
way or another through your multifarious activities defective children in your area
are ascertained and brought to your notice.