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STAFF.
School Medical Officer.—J. Francis Taylor, M.R.C.S.
(Eng.), D.P.H. (London).
Assistant School Medical Officers.—Cecilia McEwan Martin,
M.B., Ch.B. (Glasgow); John Kennedy, M.B., Ch.B. (Glasgow)
(part time).
School Oculist.—Lizzie Smith-Clark, M.B., Ch.B. (Edinburgh).
Dentists.—Percy E. Chandler, L.D.S., R.C.S. (Eng.); James
E. Horton, L.D.S., R.C.S. (Eng.).
School Nurses.—E. W. Walling, D. Crawford, M. Sykes,
M. Maye.
SCHOOL NURSES.
There are three whole time school nurses, and one who is
partly employed in the dental department and partly as a health
visitor.
One attends the Town Hall clinic in the mornings and attends
school medical inspection or visits in the afternoons.
One attends school medical inspection mornings and afternoons.
One conducts "surveys of cleanliness," visits cases that
require following up, and prepares the children in the school
(weighing and measuring) prior to the visit of the school medical
officer.
Each whole time school nurse changes duties at the beginning
of every month.
Each nurse has a group of schools which she visits for
"surveys of cleanliness" two or three times a year, as time
and prevailing conditions permit.
SCHOOL CLINIC.
Children found with defects by the school medical officer,
children found to have obvious defects by the teacher, and children
found to be verminous bv the nurse at the "head inspection"
in the school are given clinic cards and attend the school
clinic which is held every morning at the Town Hall.
Attendances and treatment are entered in a register and oa
special record cards.