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NURSERY SCHOOLS.
There are no nursery schools in the Borough. As comparatively
few mothers go out to employment and as the housing conditions
are much better than in industrial areas, there is little demand
for nursery schools. A limited number of children under 5 years of
age are admitted to Infants' Schools, but each admission is considered
by the School Attendance Committee and it is only in a case
of real necessity, for example, where the mother has to go to work,
that sanction is given for the admission of the child.
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
School medical inspection is carried out at the three Secondary
Schools by the School Medical Staff of the Ealing Education
Committee. As a large percentage of the pupils attending the
Secondary Schools have already been under the medical supervision
of this staff, it is not only convenient but appropriate that the
supervision should be continued in the same hands. The County
Education Committee is at present considering the question of
affording dental and ophthalmic treatment to all Secondary School
children and the Ealing Education Committee has offered to
undertake this treatment as it forms a natural and necessary
consequence of medical inspection.
HEALTH EDUCATION.
As a full description was given in the Annual Report for 1929
of all the activities concerned with health education in the schools,
there is no need to discuss them again. The issue by the Board
of Education of a greatly extended and improved " Handbook
of Suggestions on Health Education " should prove of inestimable
value not only as a guide to this particular branch of education of
the children of all ages, but as an incentive to the teachers to further,
by their interest in the subject, the general health of all those who
are under their daily care.