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96
HENDON EDUCATION COMMITTEE.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL
OFFICER FOR THE YEAR 1925.
To the Chairman and Members of the Hendon Education
Committee.
" Burroughs House,"
Hendon, N.W. 4.
March, 1926.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to report on the work of the School
Medical Service for the year 1925.
There has been no very outstanding event during the
year. The School Medical work does not, as a rule, afford
opportunity for striking or spectacular effects. Its chief
value lies in careful supervision of the individual children,
whereby defects are discovered at an early stage when they
are most capable of remedy, and in this way an effort is made
(not without success, I believe) gradually to raise the level
of health of the children. The new scheme of Co-ordination
with the Child Welfare work is in operation, and the treatment
of Dental and Visual defects is on the point of
commencement.
The question of Orthopaedic Treatment has been under
consideration during the year, and the Committee have, in
general terms, expressed themselves as in favour of it.
Alternative schemes are at present under the consideration
of a sub-committee.
The report follows the lines laid down by the Board of
Education in their " Schedule to Form 6 M,"