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their opinion, are likely to benefit by receiving free milk in
school, and by arranging for their attendance at the Health
Centre.
Co-operation of School Attendance Officers. A close cooperation
has been maintained between the School Medical
Department and the School Attendance Officers.
As in previous years a considerable number of children
have been medically examined at the request of the Attendance
Department on account of prolonged absence from school
through ill-health.
As the result of these examinations many children were
returned to school considerably earlier than would otherwise
have been the case.
Co-operation of Voluntary Bodies. The Invalid Children's
Aid Association is the principal voluntary organisation dealing
with school children and children below school age in
Wimbledon. As in previous years it continued to render
invaluable service during 1937. Convalescent treatment was
provided for fifty-eight Wimbledon school children during the
year under review, twenty-seven of these having been referred
from the School Medical Department. These were chiefly eases
of debility following pneumonia, bronchitis, rheumatism and
chorea.
Education is nearly always provided for the children
whilst they are away.
In addition, the Invalid Children's Aid Association made
the necessary arrangements for the admission of seven children
to special hospital schools, the Education Committee undertaking
the cost of maintenance and treatment.
Surgical appliances and special boots were provided in
three cases. Eleven children were supplied with clothes.
Included in this number were some of the children who were
sent to convalescent homes.
The approximate number of children who were on their
books, and being visited, in 1937, was three hundred and
forty-eight. It is pleasant to record that in every case in
which the assistance of the Invalid Children's Aid Association
was requested by the School Medical Department it was most
readily and freely given.
The Local Representative of the National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children has always been ready to
co-operate in every way with the staff of the School Medical
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