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CO-ORDINATION.
So consistent is the policy of the Education Committee and of
the Town Council in caring for the health of those who come under
their surveillance, and so closely are the activities of the School
Medical Service connected with those of the Public Health Department,
that there is complete co-ordination of the work. This
co-ordination is greatly facilitated by the Maternity and Child
Welfare Centre being in the same building as the School Clinic
and by the respective staffs being closely associated day by day.
It therefore follows that defective children under school age pass
automatically from the Welfare Centre to the School Clinic, and
any treatment and supervision undertaken by the former, for example,
in respecc of crippled children, are continued by the latter.
Another factor that makes for close co-operation is that minor
ailments, enlarged tonsils and defective conditions of the teeth
occurring in children under 5 years of age are treated at the School
Clinic. The natural result is that these two branches of public
health work go on as if the general policy was determined by one
body instead of two, the general aim of the Education Committee
being always in complete consonance with that of the Town Council.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC HEALTH.
School Hygiene.
There are fourteen public elementary schools under the control
of the Local Education Authority. These embrace twenty-four
departments, namely, seven for boys, seven for girls, seven for
infants, one for girls and infants, and two for boys and girls. Lammas
Boys' and Girls' Departments have been formed into a Central
School.
As stated in previous reports, six of the schools are of comparatively
modern construction, dating from 1905 to 1911, seven
are old with recent adaptations, and one is a temporary school.
The first group are in a very satisfactory sanitary condition.
Of the latter the Lancaster School will soon be vacated and its
place will be taken by the Grange School, which is in course of