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2. hygiene.
The general conditions of the Schools regarding sanitaryarrangements
etc., are as satisfactory as possible under existing
circumstances.
Heating has, of course, been a problem, but one with which
it has been relatively easy to deal because I have been able to give
favourable consideration to applications for fires to be restarted
when the weather has been cold.
Your Feeding Centres are visited regularly by Medical
Officers and with few exceptions their reports are satisfactory both
as regards the quantity and quality of the food provided for the
children.
3.FOLLOWING UP.
Valuable work has been done by Health Visitors and School
Nurses in this direction and in each case where treatment has been
offered and not taken advantage of, one of your Nurses has paid a
visit to the home in an endeavour to get the treatment carried out.
In the period under review School Nurses and Health Visitors paid
4,586 visits to the homes of your school children.
4. MEDICAL INSPECTION.
During the year 1943 Routine Medical Inspection has been
carried out at each school in accordance with Board of Education
Circular No. 1523, and with few exceptions all children attending
schools in Barking have been medically examined, including those under
five years of age who attend the Wartime Nursery Glasses.
The following table summarises the number of children
examined within the prescribed age groups, together with the number of
those examined outside such groups - placed in the category of
"Other Routine Inspections":-

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