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(A similar course of lectures was given in 1933, when over
a period of five days 30 departments were visited, 115 teachers
and 3,930 children attending. No record was made in the
report for that year.)
(b) Sets of nine coloured posters were supplied by the
Dental Board of the United Kingdom to ten senior departments.
19. SPECIAL ENQUIRIES.
The special enquiries by means of the dynamometer referred
to in the 1934 Report were continued by Dr. M. Clarke.
20. MISCELLANEOUS.
(i) and (ii) Employment of Children and Young Persons—
Co-operation between School Medical Service and Juvenile
Employment and Advisory Committees.
The suggestion outlined in Administrative Memo. No. 137,
issued by the Board of Education in September, 1935, were
adopted by your Committee. Suitable cards were provided
indicating any specific unsuitability of certain children for
particular types of work, and to be filled in at the last routine
medical examination of the children.
The work of the Juvenile Employment and Welfare Committee
is referred to in the following report by Mr. Dempsey,
the Juvenile Employment Officer:—
"The Juvenile Employment Committee in presenting this
report on the eleventh year's work of the Juvenile Employment
Bureau, is glad to record that the improvement in industry
which was noted in their last report has continued
throughout the whole of the year now under review. Walthamstow
has shared in this revival to a marked degree. Firms
of long standing have kept their staffs regularly occupied,
and a number of new firms have erected large factories within
the Borough, straining to its utmost the normal supply of
juvenile labour.
"It was indicated in our last report that the Unemployment
Insurance Act, 1934, would bring about far-reaching changes
during the present year, thus adding considerably to the
general work of the Bureau. The lowering of the age of
entry to Unemployment Insurance from 16 to 14 years
brought into the scheme over three thousand additional
accounts in Walthamstow alone, according to the number of