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Staff.—During the year Mr. E. Tribe, L.D.S., resigned, and
Mr. Alfred G. Brown, L.D.S., was appointed to take his place.
One additional school nurse was appointed, bringing the
number of the nursing staff to one supervising and eight school
nurses.
Dr. Murdoch MacGregor resigned his position as Assistant
Medical Officer in October on obtaining another appointment
and Dr. John Petrie resigned on the 31st December for a similar
reason. They were succeeded by Dr. Humphrey Butcher and
by Dr. D. F. Irvine who no longer carries out duties at the Isolation
Hospital.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
School Hygiene.
It is not necessary to make any comments under this head
other than to say that the following new schools were opened during
the year to meet the needs of the increased school population:—
Cuckoo Junior.
Cuckoo Infants.
Cuckoo Senior Boys.
Coston Senior Girls.
Perivale Senior Girls.
Stanhope School was enlarged to provide 100 additional
places in the Junior Department and 100 places together with
accommodation for 40 children in a nursery class in the Infants'
Department.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Medical inspection included (1) the routine inspection in the
schools of children in the three age-groups recommended by the
Board of Education, namely, (a) entrants, (6) children at eight
years, and (c) children at twelve years; (2) the special inspection
of children referred by the head-teachers, school nurses, school
enquiry officers, etc.; (3) the annual inspection of physically or