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The meals are provided at local dining rooms, and consist of
two courses—meat and a milk pudding.
Milk is supplied and consumed at school, under the supervision
of the class teacher. The use of a card index register at the
Public Health Office avoids the duplication of milk recommendations
by school medical, tuberculosis, and child welfare officers.
CO-OPERATION OF PARENTS.
Parents are invited to attend at the routine medical inspections,
and their presence is welcomed, as it gives the medical officer the
opportunity of giving personal help and advice. Suggestions can
thus be made both for the remedy of existing defects in the child
and also for the prevention of future ill-health in directions indicated
by the result of the medical inspection.
During 1924 66 per cent. of the children were accompanied by
parents or guardians at routine medical inspections.
CO-OPERATION OF TEACHERS, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
OFFICERS AND VOLUNTARY BODIES.
Throughout the year there existed the closest and most cordial
co-operation between teachers, school attendance officers and the
public health department in making school medical work effective.
The success of the work is ultimately dependent on the teacher; and
teachers happily recognise the value of school medical work in
rendering children capable of receiving the education offered to
them. The school attendance officers have continued to give
most valued help in drawing attention to children who might otherwise
escape medical supervision.
The voluntary School Care Committees have been instrumental
in securing treatment in individual cases, and in obtaining consent
to treatment where previous efforts had failed.
The Croydon Council of Social Service has given much information
and assistance in the provision of surgical appliances, in
help in the homes in necessitous cases, and in many other directions.
Close co-operation is maintained with the Inspector of the
National Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.