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what help they can in their work to the teachers and enquiry officers.
It is accepted by all three groups that their activities are interwoven
to a striking extent never anticipated when school medical
inspection came into being. Thus the results of the service are
proving much more profitable to the children in relation to their
health and to their education.
As in previous years appreciation has to be expressed for
assistance rendered in connexion with the care and treatment
of school children by the Central Aid Society, the National Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the School Attendance
Aid Committee, and the Middlesex King Edward Memorial
Committee.
NURSERY SCHOOLS.
No nursery schools, as such are defined, have been established
in the Borough. There is very little regular employment of married
women and housing difficulties are not so acute as to call for special
provision for children under 5 years of age. Some mothers certainly
do go out to work and their children have to be looked after in
their absence, but they are located at widely scattered parts in
the Borough and are not so congregated as to make the opening
of a nursery school convenient for all or even most of them.
Children under 5 years of age are admitted to the Infant
Schools whenever accommodation is available and whenever the
School Attendance Sub-Committee deem it advisable that the
children should, for their welfare, be admitted. In the middle
of the year there were 182 children (96 boys and 86 girls) under
5 years of age on the Registers of the Schools.
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
At the three Secondary Schools medical inspection is carried
out by the Ealing School Medical Staff for the Middlesex County
Council. It is not only appropriate but also a great convenience
that, as a large percentage of the pupils in attendance at these
Schools have already passed through the public elementary schools,
and especially as the previous records of medical inspection and
treatment are available, their continued medical supervision should
be in the charge of the same staff.