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No change in the personnel of the staff occurred during the
year, but at the end of the year the Committee lost the services of
Dr. A. R. Friel, who has been Aural Surgeon in charge of the Ear
Clinic since 1930. Dr. Friel has been extremely successful in his
treatment of ear and nose conditions in our school children, and
very largely as a result of the work done by him at the Ear Clinic
there has been a very remarkable diminution in the number of
cases of discharging ears found in our schools, as well as in other
conditions affecting the nose and ears. In Dr. Friel's place the
Committee has obtained the temporary services of Dr. F. P. M.
Clarke, who has had considerable experience of the same type of
work under other Education Authorities.
II.-CO-ORDINATION WITH OTHER MEDICAL SERVICES.
Complete co-ordination exists between the School Medical
services and those provided for children under school age by the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee. The specialist medical
and dental services provided by the Education Committee are
available also for children under school age, and are increasingly
used.
III.—SCHOOL HYGIENE.
No remarks are called for on this occasion under this heading,
except to note that a commencement has now been made with the
erection of the new school to take the place of White Hart Lane
School, and that it is hoped to make early progress with extensive
alterations at Lordship Lane and Bounds Green Schools.
IV.—MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Medical inspection has been carried out on the same lines as
in previous years and has comprised (1) the routine inspection in
the schools of children in the three age-groups recommended by the
Board of Education, namely, (as) entrants, (b) children of eightyears,
(c) children of twelve years or over; (2) the special inspection
of children referred by head teachers, school nurses, school enquiry
officers, or brought for examination by the parents or guardians;
(3) the inspection at regular intervals of physically or mentally
defective children ; and (4) the regular inspection of children supplied
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