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With what results? Anyone will be convinced who
has had experience over a number of years that the
children attending school to-day are vastly superior
to children of twenty years ago. Not only their cleanliness
and general appearance, but in general healthiness
and well being. This is the true return of the money
spent on the service during the past years, and one is
more than ever convinced to-day that any statutory
diminution of these services on the grounds of economy
will only result in retrogression in the growing child,
and subsequent loss of efficiency of the adult. It is not
claimed that the whole effect of the improvement results
from the School Medical Service alone, but there can be
no gainsaying that the School Medical Service has been
a great factor in this improvement, and that its effect is
not limited to the school child alone.
I would ask the Committee to direct special attention
to the report of the Care Committee, whose workers
are giving invaluable service at the Clinic, and assist
greatly towards the ultimate care of the defective child,
and also would I direct attention to the work of the
staff who have given unstintinglv of their services during
a year of difficulty.
Hygiene of Schools.
The following is a list of improvements and alterations
carried out in 1932:—
Raglan Road Girls' Schools.—New range ot
lavatories provided.
Parish C.E. Schools.—Installation of electric light
throughout.
Plaistow C.E. Schools.—Alteration of' schools to
provide shelter for scholars; provision of W.Caccommodation
for staff, and hand basins for
scholars. Lighting improved in one class-room.
Medical Inspections.
Routine Medical Inspection.
With the increasing school roll, difficulty is being
encountered in finding time to meet the requirement ot
the Regulations affecting routine medical inspection at