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of Health are responsible for the examination of "school attendance"
cases, and cases of infectious and contagious disease
generally, continues.
Under this scheme I have visited each school several times in
the year, have made special examinations of groups of scholars, and
many examinations of individual scholars.
Until the autumn term these last examinations were conducted
at the Council House, but at the direction of the Council this plan
was then discontinued and, with some disadvantage and inconvenience
to the work of the Schools, the examinations are now made at
the children's own homes.
The relationships between the officers of the Sanitary Authority
and the Education Authority are harmonious and intimate, and
their activities, as is obvious from what has been said, co-ordinated
in the way desired by the Local Government Board and the Board
of Education.
Head Teachers also at once communicate to the Medical
Officer of Health notice of the exclusion of any child for
admitted or suspected infectious or contagious disease, and 1 have
found them one and all most eager and willing to help in maintaining
a high standard of precision and efficiency in these matters.
Factories and Workshops' Act, 1901.
All places coming within the scope of this Act have been
periodically and systematically inspected during 1908. The particulars
officially required are set out in the tables on pp. 53-55, and
further particulars are furnished in the table on page 56.
The number of outworkers employed by firms in the district
may be counted on one hand, and the number of outworkers
employed by firms outside the district is two,