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1. Staff.—During the year the Medical Staff continued unchanged.
Owing to the unfortunate decease of Nurse Robinson a new
Health Visitor and School Nurse was appointed (Miss O. Bell),
one-half of whose time is allocated to School Medical work.
2. Co-ordination.— Vide Annual Report, 1920.
THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
3. School Premises.— There are 15 schools, with 33 departments.
One of these is a temporary school at Becontree, which
since May 14th, 1923, has been accommodated in the St. Thomas'
Church Institute pending the completion of a permanent school
which is in course of erection. This building will be opened
during the early part of 1924, and will accommodate 1,200
scholars. The schools have accommodation for 13,525 scholars,
and 10,693 were actually on the rolls on December 31st, 1924.
4. Medical Inspection.— This has been carried out in
accordance with Article 58 (b) of the Code of Regulations, viz. :—
(1) Of all children newly admitted to school.
(2) Of all children between the ages of 8 and 9 years.
(3) Of all children between the ages of 12 and 13 years, together
with all children over 13 years not previously inspected.
Details of the system adopted are given in the Annual
Report for 1920.
During 1924 the number of visits made by the Medical
Officers to 33 different departments of 15 schools for the purposes
of routine medical inspection was 244. The number of children
examined during the year, falling within the above age groups,
totalled 4,007 (2,090 boys and 1,917 girls). In addition, a number
of children of varying ages were presented by the Head
Teachers for special medical examination, being thought by the
teachers to be suffering from some ailment. During 1924, 125