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School Hygiene.
CO-ORDINATION.
The complete co-ordination existing between the
School Medical Service and the Child Welfare Department
was mentioned in last year's report. The School
Clinic, which accommodates the school nurses and at
which all the records are kept, is in the same building
as the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre. Not only
are children readily transferred on reaching school age
from the Welfare Department to the School Medical
Department, but the two Departments work in cooperation
in the passing of information or reports to
one another.
Minor ailments in children under school age are treated
at the School Clinic.
Debilitated and crippled children under school age
are treated at the King Edward Memorial Hospital
under the Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme, every
effort being made to deal with these children as early
as possible in their lives and before they proceed to
school. The treatment or supervision of such children
is automatically transferred to the School Medical
Department when the children pass into an elementary
school.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION
TO PUBLIC HEALTH.
School Hygiene.
There are now eleven public elementary schools
under the control of the Ealing Local Education
Authority. The Wesleyan School was closed in the
middle of the year. St. Stephen's Boys' School, a
Non-Provided School, became during the year a Provided
School with the name of North Ealing Boys'
School. The change in the management of this school