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STAFF.
School Medical Officer.— J. Fiancis Taylor, M.R.C.S.
(Eng.), D.F.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 Chandler, L.D.S., R.C.S. (Eng.); James
E. Horton, L.D.S., R.C.S. (Eng.).
School Nurses.— D. Crawford, M. Sykes, M. Maye, E. W.
Walling (part-time).
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.
The arrangement of duties, having been found satisfactory,
remains the same as reported last year. One nurse attends the
Town Hall clinic in the mornings, and attends school medical
inspection or visits in the afternoons.
Another attends school medical inspection mornings and
afternoons.
And the third 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.
SCHOOL MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The inspection of the children is usually conducted in the
teachers' room or alternatively in a classroom specially appropriated
for the purpose. The necessary light and quiet for efficient
examination and the maximum comfort is thereby ensured.
It is the regular practice to issue notices two or three days
in advance relative to routine inspections, and it has to be
recorded that over 85 per cent. of the children examined are