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Annual Report, 1911.
I have somewhat re-arranged the report this year in conformity
with the suggestions of Circular 596 of the Board of
Education. Some degree of uniformity in these Annual
Reports is desirable and is of great convenience to supervising
Departments, who require detailed information under different
headings.
Co-relation of the School Medical Service with the
Public Health Service,
In this district this is secured by the duties of School
Medical Officer and Medical Officer of Health being carried
out by the same officer. The advantages of this arrangement
were pointed out by the Board of Education at the very outset,
and are so manifest that these dual appointments are made
by the great majority of all the Local Authorities in the
country.
General Scheme of Medical Inspection.
The Education Administrative (Provisions) Act, 1907,
requires that at loast two groups of children shall be examined,
viz.:—
(1) All children who have been admitted to the Infants'
Departments during the year ("Entrants").
(2) Senior children expected to leave within a year of the
date of inspection ("Leavers").
In addition to these two groups it is the custom in Finchley
to examine children at intermediate ages. The period
selected is the one at which the children reach the middle
classes of the Senior Department, as it was felt that just about