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and he started his duties September 12th. No general anaesthetics have been
given during the year.
Table IV (d) gives tabular statements of the work accomplished.
8i. CRIPPLING DEFECTS AND ORTHOPEDICS.—During the past
year the Education Committee have made grants to enable parents to purchase
surgical appliances, etc., to enable the child to attend school. The S.M.O.
certifies as to the condition and necessity for the appliance and also sees the
latter when fitted, to see that it is satisfactory. The father, when in work, is
expected to contribute towards the expense, and the parents frequently get
financial help from other quarters—the Samaritan Society, etc.
Remedial exercises are not carried out, but a few cases receive massage
at the school clinic.
9. OPEN AIR EDUCATION.
9a.—Classes are held in the open air at various schools when the weather
conditions are satisfactory, but there is no systematic method and no open-air
class-rooms or open-air schools.
9b. SCHOOL JOURNEYS, CAMPS, Etc.—These have not been undertaken
during the past year.
10. PHYSICAL TRAINING.
There is no Area Organiser of Physical Training. The individual teacher.,
take their own class, and the Syllabus of the Board of Education on physical
training is used.
11. PROVISION OF MEALS.
A representative Care Committee meet monthly, and upon which the
School Medical Officer and the Assistant S.M.O. have seats.
There are three centres for meals, two of which have been open the whole
year, whilst the third was closed from the end of May till the end of September.
The full accommodation of the three is for 530 children.