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Town Hall,
Ealing, W. 5.
June 22nd, 1920.
To the Chairman and Members of the Education
Committee.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you the Annual
Report for the year 1919 on the work of the School
Medical Department.
A great improvement was effected in the
beginning of the year by the opening, at 13, Mattock
Lane, of a combined Maternity and Child Welfare Centre
and School Clinic. The placing of the whole of the
school medical work in one building has greatly
facilitated its supervision while its association with the
maternity and child welfare work has brought about the
proper co-ordination of the two departments.
It seems unnecessary to point out that the most
important work which has to be undertaken by the Committee
is the establishment of schools for mentally
defective children and for physically defective and badly
nourished children, for the establishment of these schools
has been considered by you with the greatest sympathy
and has only been postponed by the difficulty of securing
a suitable site or suitable buildings.
I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
THOMAS ORR,
School Medical Officer.