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(4) The Chiswick Children's Seaside Holiday Fund.—Mr.
F. A. Baynes, the Honorary Secretary, reports that the following
children have been sent by this body for a holiday:—
1923. 1926. 1927. 1928. 1929. 1930. 1931. 1932. 1933. 1934. 1935.
76 72 77 104 114 125 123 121 120 119 92
Total for 11 years—1,143.
During 1935, 92 children—43 boys and 49 girls—were sent
to Bexhill.
The Brentford Philanthropic Society also sent 50 boys and
girls to Bexhill for a holiday in 1935. Since 1923, 832 children
have been given a holiday by this Society.
(5) Juvenile Employment and After Care Committee.—This
Committee, the link between the School and School Medical
Service (which prepares the recruits for industry) and the
employers is rapidly acquiring the prominence and importance
it deserves and is greatly assisted by the Unemployment
Insurance Act, 1934. A highly important provision of this Act
is the lowering of the age of entering insurance to the schoolleaving
age. Previous to this Act there was a very pernicious
" gap period " of two years during which time children were
lost sight of and deterioration—mental, moral and physical—
took place. This Act also provides for the training of children
not yet fit for employment and also foreshadows provisions for
physical training, additional nourishment and medical supervision.
The Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education has in
the past urged the necessity of close co-operation of the School
Medical Service and this Committee, and in September issued a
Circular in which it was stated that all children, immediately
before leaving school, were to be medically examined and this
Committee was to be informed of any type of employment a
child was unfit to be engaged in.
(6) There is a system of co-operation with the Welfare
Department of the Chiswick Products Works with respect to
the Dental Department, the School Dental Surgeon sending all
necessary dental records of employees to the factory when the}'
are applied for.
(7) The Invalid Children's Aid Association.—We much
appreciate the valuable services rendered to us by this Society,