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Furness Road Physically Defective School.
This school has been established for the education of
children who are cripple, tuberculous, or suffering from some
similar condition of ill-health. In a measure it is an aid to
the cure of the disease from which the children are suffering,
because a number of them are in attendance with the disease
still active.
A high standard of cleanliness both of head and skin is
maintained by the nurse in charge.
The school is visited by the school doctor once a fortnight,
and the children are examined in rotation, or as may
be required. Any condition requiring remedial measures is
brought to attention.
ADMINISTRATION.
A study of the foregoing statement shows that the
maintenance of health amongst the population is one continuous
process, beginning with child life in utero, and extending
to old age. It is unfortunate that there is no single
Authority responsible for this work.
In Willesden there is continuous ov erlapping and waste
of effort owing to the multiplicity of Authorities. There is
the Public Health Authority, the Education Authority, the
Board of Guardians, the County Council, the Middlesex
Insurance Committee and a number of Voluntary Agencies.
The Public Health Authority and the Education Authority
although actually one Authority are separately responsible to
two Central Authorities, namely, the Local Government
Board and the Board of Education, from which separate
grants are obtained in respect of different sections of the
same work. A third central authority dealing with health
matters is the National Health Insuranoe Commission. Then
there is the Board of Control, the Central Authority undet