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(e) Medical Examination of Prospective Teachers.—43 candidates
for admission to Training College were examined during the
year.
(/) Sanitary Towels in Schools.—All schools have means of
issuing sanitary towels on request. Supplies are held by Head
Teachers and assistant teachers.
(g) Private Residential School for the Deaf.—In October the
Committee resolved that the Local Education Authority be informed
that the Committee was agreeable to the extension of the School
Health Service to a private residential school for the deaf situated
in the Borough.
(h) First Aid Lectures.—A series of six First Aid Lectures to
teaching staff was commenced in February and owing to the numbers
wishing to attend, the course had to be duplicated. Dr.
Melville Watkins, Deputy Borough School Medical Officer, who
undertook the lectures, has contributed the following account:—
"In any large school population the amount of first aid
undertaken by the teaching staff is considerable. It was therefore
decided to hold a series of lectures on First Aid to members of the
teaching staff with special reference to the problem of known
hazards and those likely to occur during school hours.
Six lectures were given in all and there was a good attendance.
About thirty teachers attended in each of the two classes.
It was generally agreed that the lectures and following discussions
served a very useful purpose."