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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 three Maternity and
Child Welfare Clinics, at one of which, 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.
Unification of Health Services is obtained 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 five years. Proposals to this end have been put forward ;
their consideration, has however, been deferred.
(b). Nursery Schools.
There are 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.