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(c) Of Voluntary Bodies.
The chief voluntary body whose activities are of value to the
school medical work is the Juvenile Organisations Committee. The
Committee's most striking activity is the organisation and running
of the Children's Holiday Camp at Dymchurch, to which I have
referred above. Other activities include the running of gymnasia,
clubs for indoor and outdoor sports, and dancing classes, all of them
of great benefit to the children and young people taking advantage
of them.
The Boot and Clothing Fund raised and administered by the
Care Committee has supplied many of the poorer children with
boots and clothing during the year.
Assistance has also been obtained from the representative of
the Tottenham Deanery Council for Moral Welfare in connection
with children whose moral welfare has required special supervision,
and from the Inspector of the National Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children in dealing with parents who have not been
too ready to obtain necessary treatment for their children, and I am
very grateful to both of these organisations for their help.
(d) Juvenile Employment Bureau.
In a Memorandum issued in September, 1935, the Board of
Education drew attention to the importance of active co-operation
between the School Medical Service and the work of the Juvenile
Employment and Advisory Committees. In Wood Green our school
medical records have always been available when required by the
Juvenile Employment Bureau, to supply any information likely to
be helpful in deciding whether a boy or girl leaving school was
unsuited for any particular type of employment. In December,
1935, however, all children leaving school were specially seen by
the School Medical Officers and a special note made for the use of
the Juvenile Employment Bureau in any case where the unsuitability
of work of any particular type was indicated. It is proposed to
make this inspection of all children about to leave school part of
our ordinary medical service.
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