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education to be debarred from the very comprehensive medical
services you have set up.
It has so far proved itself impracticable for the County Council
to offer amenities similar to your own. The difficulties they would
find in setting up such services would be considerable, but there is
no doubt that there is a very real need for the children to be looked
after in the way in which you look after your own children, and I
do hope that during the next year something will be done along
the lines of the County handing over the whole of this work to you,
whatever the financial consideration involved may be.
(21) CONTINUATION SCHOOLS.
There are no continuation schools in the district.
(22) EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG
PERSONS.
Milk and newspaper deliveries, general errands, etc., are the
usual forms of employment of children and young persons. In
accordance with Pye-laws of the Education Authority, 29 applicants
of school age submitted themselves for examination prior to
employment, of which number it was necessary to refuse one
applicant on medical grounds. Street trading is permissible to boys
of 15 years, although licence is refused girls under 16 years, no prior
medical examinations being required of applicants. Certain
conditions, however, such as mental defect, prevent street trading
being engaged in.
(23) SPECIAL ENQUIRIES.
There have been no special enquiries within the meaning of
the Board of Education.
The work we have been doing on industrial pneumoconiosis
has been of great interest to the Local Authority, particularly
to the Juvenile Employment Sub-Committee.