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goes on to encourage medical inspection as the means of maintaining
the health of their children. More and more are they willing to
accept treatment given at the Health Centres and to act on advice
regarding the health of the children.
Very material assistance which must be acknowledged, has'
as in previous years, been obtained from the Central Aid Society,
who assist in obtaining Special Hospital and Convalescent Home
treatment for anaemic or badly nourished children ; from the
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in
bringing pressure to bear on parents who are neglecting their
children ; from the School Attendance Aid Committee in supplying
boots for necessitous children and from the Middlesex King Edward
Memorial Committee in giving holidays at their Holiday Home
at Bexhill to anaemic and weakly children.
nursery schools.
There are no Nursery Schools in the Borough and there are
no nursery classes held in the ordinary schools. Children under
5 years of age are admitted to a number of the schools when in the
opinion of the School Attendance Committee the home circumstances
of the children justify their being admitted.
secondary schools.
Medical inspection is carried cut on behalf of the County
Council in the three County Schools in the Borough by the staff
of the School Medical Service. No provision has so far been made
for the treatment of defects found, but the Education Committee
have expressed their willingness to assist the County Council by
offering at reasonable terms such treatment as is required for
cases of defective vision and defective teeth.
blind, deaf, defective and epileptic children.
All blind and deaf children of school age are sent to Special
Residential Schools. Five blind girls and three blind boys were
being maintained at Certified Schools for the Blind at the end
of the year.