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Posters and leaflets dealing with each month's subject
were supplied to all the schools for display and distribution.
The National Milk Publicity Council arranged for a
number of lectures to be given in the schools during 1938,
pointing out the benefit to health derived from an increased
consumption of milk.
19. SPECIAL INQUIRIES.
No special inquiries were undertaken by the School
Medical Department during 1938.
20. MISCELLANEOUS.
Every candidate appointed as a teacher under the
Education Committee is required, as a condition of the
appointment, to pass a satisfactory medical examination.
Nine such examinations were carried out by the school medical
staff during the year.
Employment of Children and Young Persons. The Byelaws
made in 1935 under the Children and Young Persons Act,
1933, make it obligatory for every school child over the age
of twelve years seeking employment to be medically examined
by the school medical officer before an employment card is
issued.
Employment in or in connection with any racing course
or track or other place where any like sport is carried on,
or as an assistant in any business conducted therein, is
prohibited.
One hundred and ninety-six employment cards were
issued to school children.
One hundred and forty-six children were medically
examined for employment during the year. With the exception
of one boy all were granted medical certificates of fitness
for delivering newspapers and for work in connection with
milk rounds. Employment cards were issued to a number of
children who lived outside the district but were employed in
the Borough. In these cases medical certificates were issued
by the School Medical Departments of the Authorities of the
areas concerned.
Legal proceedings were instituted against thirteen
employers for twenty-four contraventions of the Bye-laws. In
six of the twenty-four cases the summonses were dismissed,
after the cases had been proved, on the payment of costs.
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