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Co-operation of Voluntary Bodies. 133
children with greater energy and speed than formerly.
She gives advice regarding cleansing, and sees that
the children are presented when necessary for treatment
at the School Clinic, supervising the treatment at the
home when considered desirable. By her tact and
strength of character she is able to influence the mothers
more than the men with regard to these cases, which is
only natural, since in these matters the advice of a
woman is more readily accepted than that of a man,
and the children return to school at an earlier date
than formerly—a great gain to the Education Committee
in grant and a great gain to the children in education.
Co-operation of Voluntary Bodies.
The whole of the following up is carried out by the
School Nurses, who refer cases which cannot be dealt
with at the School Clinic to Voluntary Societies. To
the Central Aid Society are referred children for convalescent
treatment, children requiring treatment in
a general hospital and those in need of surgical appliances
; to the National Society of the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children are referred children requiring
supervision; and to the School Attendance Aid Committee
children in need of boots which cannot be provided
by the parents on account of necessitous circumstances.
Blind, Deaf, Defective and Epileptic Children.
To ascertain what children are defective within the
meaning of the Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf
Children) Act, 1893, and the Elementary Education
(Defective and Epileptic Childien) Act, 1899 and 1916,
a particular survey of all the children coming within
these Acts is made once in each year, the children being
examined and special records kept ot the examination.