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available for voluntary contributions. Wherever possible, the full
cost of operation for tonsils and adenoids, of artificial sunlight
treatment, and of spectacles provided at the eye clinic is recovered
from parents. When the circumstances of the parents are such as
to make it difficult or impossible for them to meet the full cost of
treatment supplied to their children, these circumstances are put
before the Care and After-Care Committee, and the sum charged
to the parents reduced or remitted, as the case may be.
XVIII.—HEALTH EDUCATION.
In 1932 a recommendation made by the Joint Advisory Committee
of the Education Committee and the teaching staff was
adopted by the Education Committee to the effect that the teaching
of hygiene should be included in the curriculum and time-tables
of all classes in Junior and Senior Schools, and that the work
should be based on the Board of Education's Handbook of Suggestions
on Health Education.
From enquiry made from time to time in different schools,
I understand that this recommendation is being followed, and I
have recently been very glad to see in one of the schools a syllabus
drawn up by the head teacher for the use of the staff which covered
the ground very well and supplied definite evidence that instruction
in this very important subject is being regularly and satisfactorily
given in the schools.
XIX .—MISCELLANEOUS.
Under the bye-laws regulating the employment of children and
young persons, I have examined fifteen children during the year.
One was rejected on medical grounds and the others granted employment
certificates.
I have also, as in former years, examined a number of new
teachers on their appointment, and individual teachers from time
to time at the request of the Committee.
Before concluding this Report, I wish to mention one matter
of which most members of the Education Committee need no
reminding, and that is the unsatisfactory state of the School Clinic.
The building, as the Committee is well aware, is old and in poor
state of repair. In addition, the accommodation is in many
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