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CO-ORDINATION.
On previous occasions the close association and complete
co-ordination of Maternity and Child Welfare work with the
School Medical Service have been remarked upon. This co-ordination
has been rendered practicable by the adoption of the general
policy that these two branches of public health work should be
conducted in close touch in the same building, and it has been
further assisted by the appointment of a whole-time assistant
whose activities embrace the whole of the Maternity and Child
Welfare work in the Borough, together with part of the School
Medical work. As if to indicate the desirability of complete
co-ordination and the need for developing as health
educational centres in the widest sense with regard to mothers and
children, the Town Council and the Education Committee have
decided to employ the term "Health Centre" for what was
formerly known as a "Maternity and Child Welfare Centre and
School Clinic." The new Health Centre at Cherington House has
proved a great success not only on account of its excellent arrangements,
but because of the manner in which its facilities have been
utilised by the mothers and children in the area served. At
Greenford the temporary arrangements are rapidly proving insufficient
and it may be necessary sooner than was expected to proceed
with the erection of a new Health Centre to serve the needs of
Greenford, and also of Northolt, whose addition to the Borough
is expected in the course of the year.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC HEALTH.
School Hygiene.
Under the control of the Local Education Authority at the
end of the year there were 17 public elementary schools, embracing
32 departments. In June, 1927, the new Grange School for Juniors
was opened and the Good Shepherd Hall temporary school was
closed. A new school, which is urgently required, is being built
at Greenford to meet the ever increasing demands for accommodation
resulting from the occupation of many new houses in that
Ward. Betham's School had to overflow into the Village Hall,