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To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,—
I beg to submit to you the report for the year 1913. The
great delay in issuing the report has been due to the lamented
death of Dr. Bywater, and to the great difficulty I have
experienced in compiling the report, the work for which has
been entirely accomplished by another.
As I have just mentioned, the whole of the work concerned
in this report has been done by the late Dr. Bywater, the
comments are his, with exception of one or two paragraphs.
There are a few points upon which I should like to
express an opinion, as I have every reason to know that they
represent the late Dr. Bywater's feelings on the matter.
firstly, I should like to accentuate how much the work of
Medical Inspection owes to the co-operation of the Secretary of
Education. The medical work in connection with the Schools
has progressed very rapidly in Finchley, and it would have
been impossible to have advanced so far, but for the great
assistance rendered by Mr. Alder and for the sympathy he
has always shewn towards this work. I know the late Dr.
Bywater realised this very fully.
Secondly, it is earnestly to be desired that the wish
expressed by your late Medical Officer may be realised before
very long, viz., the inauguration of an admission day in every
school. By these means the doctrine of cleanliness can be
taught from the very first. I am informed that the result
at the North Road School has been most gratifying, and that
many parents make use of the school, owing to the very fact
that they have little to fear from the dirtiness of other
children.