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The percentage of parental attendances fluctuate from year to year,
but maintain a high level. The decreasing parental interest with
increasing age is a factor met with in medical inspection in all areas.
14. CO-OPERATION OF TEACHERS.
Renewed acknowledgment must be made of the excellent cooperation
received from Head Teachers. Preparation for medical
inspection entails considerable extra work, and with very rare
exceptions the keenest interest is taken in the findings and most
generous help in "following up." The personal influence of the
Head Teacher with the parent often secures the help of the still
too frequent ignorant parent.
Unfortunately, many schools still exist with no separate medical
inspection room, and in these cases Head Teachers are generous in
allowing the use of their own rooms. Provision of medical inspection
rooms should invariably be made in the design of any new schools
to be erected.
15. CO-OPERATION OF SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
OFFICERS.
The Attendance and School Medical Departments are housed
under the same roof, and the closest co-operation has been received
from Mr. Longman, the Superintendent Attendance Officer and his
staff. His unrivalled personal knowledge of every certifiable
defective child in the Borough and his sympathetic relations with
the parents has been of inestimable value. The Attendance Department
has also co-operated fully in the following ways—provision of
convalescent home treatment and of milk on medical grounds;
collection of fees for spectacles and for orthopaedic treatment and