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follows. This essential work of the School Medical
Service is happily co-ordinated with that service, and I
would like to express my great appreciation of all
the help given us by the lady helpers at the Clinic,
and in providing for the necessitous person at home
and at school. It is the following-up of cases that
completes the function of the school medical services.
We have now had a united service since 1926 and
there is no longer any separation of Public Health,
Maternity and Child Welfare, School Medical and the
Voluntary Services of the Borough. There is almost
complete supervision of the young child from babyhood
to school leaving age, through the visitation in the
homes, through Clinics and Centres, but I do find that
the work is becoming increasingly difficult with the
increasing area and the increasing population. The time
has come when extension of existing services must be
permitted by a loosening of the strings which have held
the purse so closely during the recent financial distress
of the country.