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those that have been notified as requiring treatment on the
routine medical inspection work or other examination, discovering
whether any treatment has been carried out, and,
if not, endeavouring to get the parents to have the defects
remedied. I give a summary of the results of the two great
classes of defects found, one, those inspected by the Health
Visitor herself and presented by the teachers on visiting the
schools or by letter, the other as a result of the medical
inspection.
In addition, Miss Radford has visited the schools every
three months and examined the heads of all the children. By
this means a steady improvement has been effected, and from
the fact that the heads are subject to a periodical inspection
a great deal has been effected in keeping parents alive to the
importance of attending to this condition. It entails, of
course, an enormous amount of work, but the result justifies
the effort. I give a summary of the work done under the two
headings:—