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(16) Co-operation of Voluntary Bodies.
The following Societies or Associations in particular render
useful service to the School Medical Department:—
(1) Invalid Children's Aid Association.
(2) Invalid and Crippled Children's Society.
(3) Central Association for Mental Welfare.
(4) National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children.
The first two Societies notify to the School Medical Officer
ailing children who come to their notice as requiring convalescence,
or crippled children requiring surgical appliances (or alteration
to same).
During the year 71 cases were referred by the above Societies
and examined as to necessary surgical instruments or alteration.
During the same period 248 children of school age and 38
under school age were examined and sent away for varying periods
of convalescence.
Occasionally the Inspectors of the N.S.P.C.C. have been
called in to help in cases of persistent neglect, and their visits
have a moral and material effect on neglectful parents.
The Central Association for Mental Welfare interests itself
in mentally defective educable children during and after school
age.
(17) Blind, Deaf, Defective and Epileptic Children.
(a) The ascertainment of these exceptional children is
obtained from two sources. The School Attendance Department
have a complete list of all "out of school" cases and of those
already placed in Institutions.
The "out of school" cases have all at some time been submitted
to the certifying Medical Officer to ascertain their fitness for
ordinary school, their fitness for a special school, or their total
unfitness for school life.
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