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and enquiries into infectious illness, can be made use of for
helping to check and maintain this schedule, and the concentration
of this work in one office would make for efficient
and economical administration.
In this connection, year by year, when the "fair
schedule" is accurately checked, or from time to time as
required by the Education Committee, a full statement of
children not attending school should be presented, in order
that the needs of the district for further school accommodation
may be accurately gauged.
Amalgamation of Committees.—In the foregoing pages
I have dealt with this question of re-organisation from the
point of view of the office administration, but the relationship
of the official workers to the responsible Committees
must also be considered. I have indicated that the following
subjects are inseparably linked up, all actually coming
under the heading of the Care of the Children—
(a) The health of the children, Including
Medical Inspection,
Following up, and
Medical Treatment.
(b) The supervision of children absent from school.
(c) The provision of school meals.
It seems to me, therefore, important that these matters
should be under the control of one Committee, and for this
purpose Attendance Committees and School Care Committees
should be merged into divisional Care Committees
for such schools or districts as might be necessary. Personally,
I would suggest eight divisional Care Committees,
each meeting monthly. Under these circumstances the
general scheme of amalgamation and re-organisation in its
final form might be diagrammatically represented, thus: