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Cases of Measles, Whooping Cough, etc., if requiring to be
nursed, are usually dealt with by the local Nursing Associations.
There is no provision of hospital accommodation for Measles or
Whooping Cough cases other than occasionally in the Public
Assistance Hospital.
3.—THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN RELATION TO
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
School Hygiene.
The School buildings and sanitary arrangements are periodically
inspected, and a complete survey of the schools is made from time
to time. Every school in the district is visited at least twice a
year by a Medical Officer.
Dinner Hour Arrangements.
At Spring Grove Central School children can obtain a hot
dinner at low cost, the meal being supplied from the attached
Cookery Centre. Such an arrangement here is of great value, as
children are drawn from all parts of the district, and it is impossible
for many of them to return home for the mid-day meal.
Similar arrangements exist at the new Bulstrode School,
where there is also a Cookery Centre.
In a number of schools certain children bring food of various
kinds for their midday meal, and this is consumed in the classroom
or the hall. In some cases the Head Teachers give facilities
for making cocoa, etc., These meals are frequently unsuitable,—
in the case of the poorer children, both from the point of view of
quality and sometimes quantity; and in the case of the more pampered
children, unsuitable in quality, chiefly in the direction of
fancy cakes, etc.
4. —MEDICAL INSPECTION
A routine medical inspection was arranged for every school
in the district, and, except in one school, a re-inspection was also
carried out. The exception is the Bulstrode Senior School, which
opened in September and had its first medical inspection in
December.