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42.
MILK IN SCHOOLS.
The arrangements for the supply of milk to school children
were carried on as in previous years.
In the report for 1938 mention was made of the impending
arrangements to enable children to have milk during the school
holidays and at Easter 1939 this scheme began. Those children,
whose parents desired them to have milk, were instructed to attend
at various Centres daily. The successful distribution of the milk
at these Centres was due largely to the great help which was given
by members of the Ealing Women Citizens' Association and various
voluntary organizations throughput the Borough.
NURSERY SCHOOLS.
The nursery classes conducted at St. John's, St. Mark's,
Stanhope and Drayton Schools, concerning which remarks were made
in the Annual Report for 1938, were discontinued after the outbreak
of war. Their discontinuance was due to the evacuation of so many
of the school children and the difficulty in staffing these particular
classes.
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
Medical inspection was carried out as in former years on
behalf of the Middlesex Education Committee in four County
Schools in the Borough, 368 routine and 31 special inspections of
pupils being made.
County Schools are usually medically inspected in May and
new entrants in November. As the County Schools were not open
in November, however, the entrants were not inspected in 1939.
This accounts for the decrease in the numbers.
Ophthalmic treatment was given during the year to 55 pupils
attending County Schools and for 48 of these spectacles were
prescribed and supplied through the school medical department.
Dental inspection of all the pupils attending the County
Schools was carried out on behalf of the Middlesex Education
Committee and the following is the report of the School Dental
Surgeon :