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(14) Co-operation of Teachers.
The continued co-operation of the Head Teachers is a great
factor in the School Medical Service. The teachers help in many
ways. They prepare the lists for examination and select
"specials" to be examined. They urge the attendance of parents,
and render many services in connection with the Nurses' visits in
the process of following-up. They also draft special cases to the
Clinics for minor ailments, and interview many parents on the
subject.
Their scope in treatment is of course limited to seeing that
a child attends regularly the examination and Clinic, and urging
parents to persist in treatment, or otherwise obtain treatment
where advised.
They also put into action those special recommendations
of the Doctor after his visit of routine examination.
In many matters connected with the School Medical
Service valuable co-operation has been given by the Committee's
Inspectors, Mr. T. Wall and Miss C. M. Bott.
The following list gives defects or recommendations
notified to Head Teachers, which have a bearing on the
educational career of the child:—
Vision, 1,760
Physical Exercises, 40
Defective Hearing, 57.
Breathing Exercises, 31
Heart (Physical
Overstrain), 110
Defective Speech, 1.
Detormities, 11
Mental Condition, 7
Nervous System, 3
Skin Disease,
(Verminous, etc.), 9
Other Defects, etc., 30
(15) Co-operation of School Attendance Officers.
There is a complete co-ordination between the School Medical
Service and the School Attendance Bye-Laws Department, supervised
by Mr. G. F. Crane.
The cases concerned involve school attendance, cleanliness,
unfitness for school or for employment, and out of school cases.
The School Attendance Officer makes a daily return of all
children out of school on medical grounds, and cases of infectious
disease are visited by Sanitary Inspectors.
I consider the work done by the School Attendance Officers
in connection with the Health Services of the Borough to be of
great value. They have helped very materially in stemming the
outbreak of Small Pox.
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