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CO-OPERATION OF SCHOOL ATTENDANCE OFFICERS.
Arrangements are in force by which the School Attendance
Officers, on becoming aware of absence from school due to infectious
disease or contact therewith, notify the School Medical
Officer. On the other hand, the School Medical Department
notifies the Director of Education of similar cases in order that
he may pass on the informaton to the Attendance Officers.
CO-OPERATION OF VOLUNTARY BODIES.
The Children's Care Committee provides help for necessitous
children. Through its agency free meals are granted to children
who are suffering from insufficient feeding, and during 1933 24015
dinners were thus provided.
Nineteen children were given cod-liver oil and malt, Parrish's
Food, etc., and eleven convalescent treatment. 500 pairs of
ordinary boots were also provided; one child was given fares to
hospital.
Through the medium of the Children's Care Committee massage
is provided for the children requiring it. A fee of two shillings
per visit is charged, and this is paid by the parent whenever
possible. In really necessitous cases the Care Committee bears
the cost.
The National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
assists in dealing with parents who are guilty of continued neglect.
BLIND, DEAF, EPILEPTIC AND MENTALLY DEFECTIVE
CHILDREN.
There is no special school for the blind in this area and children
suffering from vision so defective that they are unable to be taught
in an ordinary elementary school are educated either at a special
school in Edmonton or Wood Green or at a residential school for
the blind. There are 13 such children in Enfield and they are
educated as follows:—
Three girls attending residential schools for the blind.
One boy and one girl attending Edmonton School for the
Partially Blind.
Five girls attending Wood Green School for the Partially Blind.
Three boys awaiting admission to Schools for the Partially
Blind.
During the course of the year I visited the Myope School,