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Miss F. Young, the Dental Nurse, resigned in December, 1928.
Her resignation takes effect in January, 1929, and steps have been
taken to fill the vacancy.
(2) CO-ORDINATION.
The unified Public Health Staff makes for co-ordination
between the various sections of the Public Health Department,
and Infant and Child Welfare work is intimately associated with
the work amongst children actually attending school.
It will be unnecessary for me this year to speak expressly
on the question of nursery schools. The matter was discussed at
length in my report for the year 1927. I have nothing to add to,
and nothing to modify what I said in my report for that year.
In speaking of the Maternity and Child Welfare Service and
its unification with the other Public Health Services, I wish to
include not only the work at the actual Maternity Centres but also
the work carried out at your Orthopaedic Clinic and at your Dental
Centre, all of which is unified in one department, notwithstanding
the fact that for different parts of the work we are responsible to
different committees.
(3) SCHOOL HYGIENE.
Last year it was my duty to call to your attention the need
there is for facilities at your schools for the drying of children's
clothes and boots. This was previously brought to your notice in
the report for the year 1926 and is a matter I have very much at
heart.
You realise, I know, full well, the necessity for making some
provision for drying children's clothes and boots, and I realise the
difficulties you experience in obtaining these facilities. I do,
however, feel the time has come when, notwithstanding all the
difficulties, a move should be made towards providing an amenity
so necessary to the health of the children.
Provision of Meals.—The provision of meals in Barking for
school children has reached a very high level of efficiency. Meals
are prepared at the Municipal Kitchen and are distributed to the