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SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER
EDUCATION.
I. MEDICAL INSPECTION.—
There is one secondary school in the area with 463 pupils and arrangements
have been entered into by which the routine medical inspections
arranged by the Middlesex County Council are carried out by your School
Medical Officers. The children are examined when they enter the school and
at 12 and 15 years of age.
II. FOLLOWING UP AND MEDICAL TREATMENT.—
No provision has been made for treatment. Two years ago tentative
suggestions were put forth for the dental and visual treatment of these defects
to be carried out by the local authority but the proposals were not then
proceeded with. They have, however, since been revived and it is hoped that
in the near future this work will be undertaken.
PARENTS' PAYMENTS.
There has been no change in the arrangements for recovering the cost
of treatment from parents.
HEALTH EDUCATION.
In all schools in the area a portion of time is devoted each week to
the teaching of elementary physiology and hygiene, sometimes they are taken
as separate subjects and sometimes as part of the science lessons.
Apart from the constant health propaganda which is carried out at the
various centres, during the year, the Dental Board of the United Kingdom
provided a lecturer who spent a week in the area delivering lectures on dental
hygiene to the school children. These lectures were very much appreciated
and in many of the schools, essays were written by the school children
on what they had heard. I had the pleasure of seeing a certain number of
these essays and it was quite obvious that the lecturer had presented her
subject matter in sudh a way as to be easily intelligible to the children and
the lectures stimulated an increasing interest in the care of the teeth.