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I am pleased to be able to report that, speaking generally,
the scheme has worked well, with infinitely less friction than I
had anticipated, and I think 1 may say, on the whole, with the
most satisfactory results.
In no single instance has complaint been made or has it
come to my knowledge that any practitioner has felt himself
aggrieved in any sense at the action of any of the Assistant
Medical Officers, and it says much, not only for the " correctness "
of their conduct, but for their tact, that there has been such
uniform absence of complaint on this ground.
Between myself and my colleagues the most harmonious
relations have obtained.
ASSISTANCE GIVEN BY THE TEACHERS.
The essential co-operation of the teachers in the work, it was
considered, would be better secured by mutual arrangement
between the Assistant School Medical Officer and the Head
Teacher of the school department to which he was appointed,
rather than by the formulation of any hard and fast regulations.
Almost without exception the Assistant School Medical
Officers speak most highly of the hearty and warm response
which the teachers have evinced, and of the valuable assistance
which the teachers have ungrudgingly rendered. At the same
time it is necessary to record that there have been exceptional
instances in which it has been difficult to make a teacher realise
that attention to the physical condition of the child is an essential
element in its education ; and where, in consequence, there has
not been that desire to co-operate, assist, and be assisted by the
Medical Officer which has been a feature of the work throughout
the schools generally.
The notion has prevailed in these instances that other educational
work had a prior and even exclusive claim upon a hardworked
teacher's attention. This view, however, has never been
pressed to its full conclusion, and has been in marked contrast