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136 Employment of Children and Youug Persons.
The chief employments in which children are engaged
in Ealing are delivering papers, milk and bread, doing
domestic work, and acting as message boys. Those in
which young persons are employed are chiefly selling
papers and hawking fruit or vegetables.
Arrangements have been made by which all employed
children will be medically examined at least once a year
to determine if they are being adversely affected by
the conditions of their employment. The head-teachers
have been asked by circular letter to inform the School
Medical Officer at once of any children whom they consider
are being adversely affected by employment out
of school hours. Cases so reported will be medically
examined and reported upon.
All young persons before being employed in street
trading are medically examined and reports are made
on the forms relating to them, which are kept by the
Shops Inspector, who administers the bye-laws on behalf
of the Education Committee.
Co-ordination of the work of the School Medical Service
with that of the Juvenile Employment Committee and of
the Certifying Factory Surgeon.—Reports are furnished
to the Juvenile Employment Committee regarding the
health or physical condition of any young person of
whom records are available and concerning whom such
reports are desired. In some cases a medical opinion
is also given apart from or in addition to such reports.
There is no co-ordination of the work of the Certifying
Factory Surgeon and of the School Medical Service.
No reference has ever been made by the Surgeon with
regard to any person, but this may be due to the fact
that no occasion has arisen. There are very few fac-