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fication which their special opportunities for the
study of disease in children have afforded them, have
had also an adequate training in state medicine and
have had definite experience of school hygiene.
Even should such be forthcoming, there remains
the further difficulty of conflict between the official
demands on their time and the uncertain exigencies
of general practice which make the definite allocation
of a portion of the day for systematically recurring
work, a practical impossibility.
The difficulties of co-ordinating the work, of
securing uniformity of procedure and of results and
of utilising to the full, the invaluable presence in the
schools of the practitioner of medicine would all be
greatly increased were this method of conducting
the work decided upon.
Special
All-time
Medical
Officers.
Should the appointment of special all-time
Medical Officers receive the approval of the
Committee, 1 estimate that the number necessary
to perform the work will be as follows
1. A supervising medical officer of schools.
2. An assistant medical officer of schools.
3. A second assistant medical officer of schools.