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CO-OPERATION OF TEACHERS.
The School Medical Service continues to receive the sympathetic
and sustained support of the teachers, who recognise
that educational efforts must go hand in hand with the supervision
of the physical conditions of the children. In various ways the
teachers render invaluable service, particularly in referring to the
School Medical Officer all physically and mentally defective children,
iv submitting defective or suspected defective children for special
examination at the School Clinic, and in keeping under particular
supervision all defective children. In certain schools the general
supervision or care of defective children is so consistert and so
interested as to have become a very important cog in the educational
machine and to deserve the highest commendation.
CO-OPERATION OF SCHOOL ENQUIRY OFFICERS.
The two enquiry officers, who were appointed in recent years,
have certainly become imbued with the high importance of the
school medical service and act in complete co-operation with the
school medical staff from whom they can at any time obtain advice
in cases of difficulty arising on the medical side of their work,
which must of necessity, at all times, loom very large. Much
assistance can be—and is—given by the School Enquiry Officers
not only in the discovery of defective children, but in their
supervision.
CO-OPERATION OF VOLUNTARY BODIES.
The whole of the following up and supervision of defective
children is carried out by the School Nurses who are assisted in
their duties by the Head-teachers and School Enquiry Officers.
Considerable assistance in obtaining ameliorative treatment for
defective children, however, is obtained from various Voluntary
Societies, such as the Central Aid Society with respect to Hospital
and Convalescent Home treatment and the provision of surgical