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(6) The enhancement of the School Dental Service and the
appointment of a Senior Dental Officer so that treatment need not
be limited to any age group and more detailed attention directed towards
conservative work and orthodontics.
(7) The appointment of a Consultant Anaesthetist so that the
dental work is carried out under the best possible conditions of
modern anaesthesia.
(8) The proper classification of certain of the scholars into the
various categories of Handicapped Pupils and their subsequent
placement in suitable institutions or environment to meet individual
needs.
Special note is made of a group of maladjusted pupils who would
benefit greatly from a comprehensive Child Guidance Service which
should be instituted at the earliest possible moment. These are the
children who if taken early in their deviation from the right social
and educational road into the byways of delinquency and crime, can
be treated by specialist methods and replaced, surely, on the highway
to right living and good citizenship.
(9) The institution of Kitchen Dining Units to obviate the
transport of prepared food from central kitchens and to enable freshly
cooked wholesome meals to be served to scholars in the school dining
halls.
This addition to the daily calory intake of pupils is a most
important factor in maintaining health and assisting growth in the
children of the borough.
(10) The enhancement of the School Milk Service whereby all
children who so desire are enabled to take at fractional cost, one-third
of a pint of milk daily in the school.
It has been found that the milk in schools service plays a definite
role in the raising of the standard of dental development and structure
which has been noted of recent years. No effort should be spared and
every instrument of propaganda employed to encourage parents to
allow their children to take full advantage of the School Meals and
Milk Services.
The growing needs of school children can be met only by a superabundance
and great variety of foods to allow for the selective
nutritional needs of each child, for in the problem of individual growth
every human being is a law unto himself. Furthermore, it is probable
that only in the ten per cent highest income class does the diet exceed
in all essentials the standard food requisite.