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supplied free where necessary. The intention is to keep the children
in the schools under constant supervision and so to discover or
prevent any signs of malnutrition.
STAFF.
Two Assistant Medical Officers resigned during the year,
Dr. D. I. Irvine and Dr. H. G. H. Butcher, their places being taken
by Dr. Alfred J. Muir and Dr. Matthew C. Kelly.
During 1939 Miss H. Bailey, Che Supervising School Nurse,
retired after 20 years' service, and Miss M. Coslett, the senior School
Nurse, was appointed in her place. Another School Nurse, Miss
M. P. Dorkins, also retired. Miss A. M. Matthews and Miss G.
Griffiths were appointed in their place. Miss Matthews, who took
up her position at the outbreak of war, was transferred to a reception
area to which a number of Ealing children were evacuated, in order
to assist the stuff of the local authority of that area to supervise the
greatly Increased number of school children there.
Mr A. G. Brown, one of the School Dentists, was called up for
service with the Forces and a part-time dental surgeon, Mr. J. V.
Houlton, was engaged to assist with the work.
The Ophthalmic Surgeon, Mr. Graeme Talbot, was called up
for duty with the Royal Army Medical Corps and in his stead
Dr. J. G. Freeman Heal was appointed for the duration of the war.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Medical inspection included (1) the routine inspection ia the
schools of children in the three age-groups recommended by the
Board of education, namely, (a) entrants, (b) children at eight
years, and (c) children at twelve years ; (2) the special inspection
of children referred by the head-teaches, school nurses, school
enquiry officers etc.; (3) the annual inspection of physically or
mentally defective children, and (4) the inspection of children in
connection with the supply of milk at the cost of the Education
Committee.