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Report of the Work of the School
Medical Service.
1.—STAFF.
The Staff consists of the School Medical Officer, the Assistant School
Medical Officer, Dr. R. H. Strong; an Ophthalmic Surgeon, Dr. Lizzie Smith
Clark (one session weekly); a Half-time Dentist, Mr. W. H. Willis, L.D.S.;
Five School Nurses; a Clinic Clerk, and a Half-time Clerk for the S.M.O.
With the exception of the first-named, who is also Medical Officer of Health,
and the Half-time Clerk, the Staff carry out their duties at an old Mansion
situated in Pymmes Park, and near the junction of Lower and Upper
Edmonton.
2 —CO-ORDINATION.
The School Medical Officer is also Medical Officer of Health and Supervisor
of the Maternity and Child Welfare work.
Nursery Schools have not been established in the District.
Debilitated Children.—If the debility is associated with malnutrition,
an order for dinner at one of the Centres is given; if necessitous, the
dinners are free. The Committee are willing to give Cod-liver oil to suitable
cases, and are waiting the sanction of the Board of Education.
3.-SCHOOL HYGIENE.
Under this heading would be considered the site and surroundings of
the school, the aspect, warming, ventilation and lighting—natural and
artificial—of the Class-rooms and Central Hall; the situation, warming, etc.,
of Cloak-rooms, and the arrangements for hanging clothes; the provision
of drinking water and lavatory accommodation; the provision of staff-rooms
with indoor sanitary accommodation for staff; the playground, size, surface,
drainage; the covered playground; w.c. and urinal accommodation for the
children.
Equipment usually resolves itself into the question of desks.
The schools will be taken seriatim, and any marked departure from the
usual will be noted.