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The School Enquiry Officers continue to give the same valuable
assistance as was noted in previous annual reports. They act in
close co-operation with the school medical staff to whom they
supply useful information regarding defective children and from
whom they can often obtain much help in their school attendance
work. The three officers fully recognise how closely school medical
and school attendance work are necessarily associated.
Certain voluntary bodies give valuable assistance in school
medical work. The Central Aid Society gives help in obtaining
special Hospital and Convalescent Home treatment for anaemic
or badly nourished children; the National Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children in bringing pressure to bear on neglectful
parents; the School Attendance Aid Committee in providing boots
for children of necessitous parents and the Middlesex King Edward
Memorial Committee in giving holidays, at their Holiday Home
at Heme Bay, for anaemic or weakly children.
NURSERY SCHOOLS.
There are no Nursery Schools within the Borough, but children
between 4 and 5 years of age are admitted to the Infants' Departments
whenever the School Attendance Committee is of opinion that
it is to their advantage, on account of special home circumstances
such as the occupation of the mother or the overcrowded or unsuitable
conditions, to be admitted. Each case is considered on its
merits by the Committee on an application being made by the
parents. Very few married women in the district are engaged in
regular employment, so that there has at no time been any insistent
demand for Nursery Schools.
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
Medical inspection at the two Secondary Schools, provided
by the Middlesex Education Committee, is carried out by the Ealing
School Medical Staff. This arrangement is very convenient as
the great majority of the boys and girls attending these schools
come from Ealing Public Elementary Schools, where they have
already been under medical supervision.