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and help has been obtained, both in bringing before the notice of
the School Medical Officer children who have attracted their
attention in the classroom, and also in seeing that, as far as possible,
advice given is being followed up. Dr. Boyd-Mackay adds her
testimony to their very valuable assistance.
15.—CO-OPERATION OF SCHOOL ATTENDANCE OFFICERS.
Each and every Visitation and Attendance Officer has a part
in co-operating in the administration of the School Medical Service.
The work of these officials is very acceptable.
16.—CO-OPERATION OF VOLUNTARY BODIES.
I am very much indebted to the Care and After-Care SubCommittee
of the Education Committee for the great interest shown
in the School Medical Service. Exceptional cases of distress are
brought to their notice and dealt with sympathetically. The help
of other Societies which aid weak and ill children is obtained in
suitable instances, and there is a close relationship between our
Education Committee and the various social activities which are
grouped together under the name of the Juvenile Organisations'
Council, by whose influence and under whose control a great deal
of real benefit is found for the children in many ways—but more
especially in the provision of means to allow Country Holiday
Camps to have been carried on for the past 4 years. I am pleased
to add that a suggestion in my last report of sending both boys and
girls to breathe the seaside air has been adopted, and I am glad to
know that during the coming summer both 80 boys and 80 girls
(specially selected) are to be given a fortnight's enjoyment at
Dymchurch, on the Kentish coast.
17.—BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC
CHILDREN.
(a) Such children are picked out at the routine Medical
Inspections and also at the Special Clinics regularly held, and notes
are taken of them at the time. Lists of delicate and otherwise
abnormal children are kept for reference.
(b) We have 24 children in our Myopic Class, which is a better
term than "a School for the Partially Blind," but possibly not so
good as the one which has been recently suggested, viz., "The
Sight-Saving Department." (The stigma attached to any Special
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