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16. SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
The Authority for the provision of Secondary Schools in your
Borough is the Essex County Council.
17. PARENTS' PAYMENTS.
The approved scales for the recovery of fees in respect of treatment
for Tonsils and Adenoids, Ringworm and Dental defects are
set out on the back of the leaflets in use for the purpose of
recording the parents' agreement for such treatment.
In the case of members of the Hospital Savings Association, the
vouchers are accepted in lieu of parents' payments, and the contributions
are recovered from the Association.
The full cost of the appliances supplied under the Orthodontic
Scheme is recovered from the parents before they are supplied.
Except in necessitous cases, parents pay in full for all spectacles
under an agreed scale of charges accepted by all the Opticians on
the official rota.
18. HEALTH EDUCATION
(a) Towards the end of the year a questionnaire was sent by
your Director of Education to all Head Teachers requesting
information as to the teaching of Hygiene, more especially in
view of the new edition of the Hand Book of Suggestions on
Health Education, 1933, copies of which had previously been
supplied to all Departments.
Fifty-two out of sixty-five Departments allocated a definite
period of instruction to the Hygiene of Food and Drink, and of
these twenty-five allocated periods of half an hour and over per
week. Eight Senior Girls Departments gave teaching in Mothercraft
and, in addition, three Departments arranged for Senior
Girls to attend your Authority's Nursery School.
The Head Teachers of fifteen Departments stated that new or
additional wash-basins were required, ten stated that hot water
was either necessary or advisable, and 3 suggested the provision of
heated cloakrooms.
(b) Dental Propaganda.—The Dental Exhibit provided by the
Dental Board of the United Kingdom, was demonstrated at ten
Central and Senior Schools over a period of ten school days. Lady
demonstrators gave simple talks on Dental Hygiene, and explained
exhibits which consisted of a series of models showing the
development and eruption of the teeth, their structure and the
diseases for which they are liable.