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CO-ORDINATION.
The co-ordination of the work of the School Medical Service
is so complete that all forms of treatment made available
for school children at the School Clinic or otherwise are
made available for children under 5 years of age. Children
under school age requiring treatment for dental conditions, diseases
of the naso-pharynx, abnormal conditions of the eye, minor ailments
and for crippling or conditions which may result in crippling, are
passed over to the School Clinic for appropriate treatment. The
records of defective or debilitated children who reach school age
are handed over as a routine procedure to the School Clinic so that
medical supervision can be continued. This co-ordination is
greatly facilitated by the School Clinic and the Maternity and
Child Welfare Centre occupying the same building, which is devoted
entirely to these two branches of public health work.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC HEALTH.
School Hygiene.
The Education Committee has under its control twelve public
elementary schools which embrace twenty-four departments;
seven for boys, seven for girls, seven for infants, one for boys and
girls, one for girls and infants, and one for junior boys and girls.
During the year the Grange School, consisting of one department
for boys and girls, was opened to replace the Joseph Lancaster
School, which was closed. The Grange School, a plan of which
was represented in last year's Annual Report, is constructed so that
it can be used, when the weather permits, as an open-air school.
It is hoped that the teachers will value this special characteristic
of this new school and will use the classrooms as open-air classrooms
whenever practicable.
The decision of the Committee to go on with the erection on this
site of another block of the same character for junior boys and
girls is commendable. When this block has been completed, St.
Mary's Girls' School and the Good Shepherd Hall Temporary