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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF ARRANGEMENTS WHICH
HAVE BEEN MADE DURING 1913 FOR THE CORRELATION
OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL AND PUBLIC
HEALTH SERVICES.
My staff was added to on February nth, 1913, by the appointment of a
School Medical Clerk, half of whose time is occupied with public health work.
This followed a report of mine dated the 8th January, and a room formerly
occupied by the district-rate collector was placed at my disposal and equipped
as the " School Medical Office." After a second report of mine, dated
5th April, the equipment of the office was completed; the large amount of
important work which has since been carried on there has fully justified the
outlay I recommended. Half the cost of furnishing the office was met by the
Education Committee. The room at Brettenham Road is still retained for the
" Medical Officer," as it is used for the routine inspection of the scholars at
that school, and such records of all the schools as I may require for reference
at the meetings of the Education Committee—still held there—and the storing
of the blank forms used by the head teachers and attendance officers. Miss
Nora Playne began duty as School Nurse on 2nd June, in succession to
Miss Johnston, who had been with us since the work began in 1908.
THE SCHOOLS OF EDMONTON.
(18 in Number).
Public Elementary Schools number 11
Secondary Schools ,, 1
Private Schools ,, 6
The Edmonton Union has two schools or homes for pauper children,
both in the Enfield district.
The Strand Union School ceased to exist on 31st July.
Girls' Charity School. On the 27th March, the Eoard of Education
sent a letter covering six copies of a draft scheme. Other copies were
distributed to the Councillors. This was considered at a Special Meeting of
the Council on the 29th April, when certain alterations were agreed to. The
final scheme, dated 23rd July, 1913, together with a letter from the Board of
Education was submitted to the Council on the 26th August. This scheme
was made under the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853-1894, which replaced a
scheme dated the 1st August, 1906. The original foundation is now
administered in two parts (a) the Girls' Sunday School Foundation, and (b)
the Girls' Special Instruction Foundation. The trustees of Foundation "A"
are the Rev. Preb. E. A. B. Sanders, Vicar of Edmonton, Messrs. H. W.