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Thursday.—Dinner No. 5.—Fried liver, thick gravy, potatoes, greens,
bread; baked rice pudding.
Friday.—Dinner No.6.—Boiled Fish and melted butter,potatoes, haricots,
bread; boiled currant roll.
Saturday.—Dinner No. 1.—Stew. (Or, if preferred, Irish Stew in lieu
of No. 1 above.)
When possible, stewed fruit to be given once or twice a week as second
course, in place of the puddings mentioned above.
T. G. SCOTT, Hon. Sec.,
27, Queen's Road.

The first School Nurse makes special visits to the schools to examine whole
classes of children. with the view to ascertaining their condition as to cleanliness.
The children with nits or vermin are given cards to take home, warning their
parents of the condition and giving advice as to how to get rid of them. She
has looked over 6,008 this year; the number was 983 last year. Mrs. Hobbs,
second school nurse, deals with the verminous homes.
The Cleansing Station still remains unfinished, although the walls were
erected last year and utilised as a temporary shed for a motor ambulance for.
infectious disease. It is quite time that it was completed and in proper use.
In September I requested the Public Health Committee to draw the Council's
attention to the urgent necessity of completing this building in the Town
Hall Yard, not only to deal with lice amongst scholars, but with itch
amongst the inhabitants of all ages, which loathsome disease has been much
on the increase, owing to Service men bringing it home when on leave.
TEETH.
Of the boys, 1,109, and 1,125 girls, had one to three teeth decayed, and as
many as 622 boys and 542 girls had four teeth or more decayed.