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CO-ORDINATION.
The administrative work of the School Medical Service is
carried out in the Health Department, under the supervision of
the School Medical Officer who is also Medical Officer of Health
with charge of the Council's scheme for Maternity and Child
Welfare. The Assistant Medical Officer, whose duties are mainly
in connection with school children, also gives assistance in public
health matters generally, and has charge of one Maternity and Child
Welfare Clinic, where ante-natal work in particular is dealt with.
The Health Visitors act also as School Nurses, each being
responsible for a district and the schools therein.
Conference with the Education Office is facilitated, as it is
housed in the same building as the Health Department.
Finally, the year 1920 has seen greater unification of Health
Services, inasmuch as matters pertaining to the School Medical
Service, Maternity and Child Welfare and Public Health generally,
are now reported monthly to the same Health Committee.
(a). Infant and Child Welfare.
There are two centres in the District. These with the School
Clinics share the same medical and nursing staff, and the record
cards are available for school medical purposes. Occasionally a
case of ringworm receives x-ray treatment by arrangement with
the Education Committee, but there is no general scheme for
remedying dental, visual and other defects in children below the
age of 5 years. Proposals to this end have been put forward ; their
consideration, has however, been deferred.
(b). Nursery Schools.
There is none in the district.
(c). The Care of Debilitated Children under School Age.
Children up to the age of five years have access to the
centres above mentioned. Arrangements have also been made
with the Isleworth Nursing Association for the nursing of measles,
whooping cough, etc.