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The cases brought to the notice of the Public Health Department
by the School Attendance Officer during the year were as
follows:—
(16) Co-operation of Voluntary Bodies.
The following Societies or Associations are in constant touch
with the School Medical Department re the welfare of individual
children.
(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.
(5) The Almoners of a large number of voluntary hospitals.
The first two Societies notify the School Medical Officer of
such children coming under their notice who require convalescence
or new or altered surgical instruments. The Education Committee
assists in the purchase of instruments, or alteration of same.
During the year, 258 school children were sent away for varying
periods of convalescence.
During the same period, 36 children were examined, and the
parents assisted in the purchase of new Surgical Instruments or
alterations to same.
Occasionally the Local Officer of the N.S.P.C.C. renders help
in the case of recalcitrant or neglectful parents or guardians.
The Central Association for Mental Welfare interests itself
in children of school age who are mentallv defective, and also in
their after-school welfare.
(17) Blind, Deaf, Defective and Epileptic Children.
(a) The returns of these children are obtained from two
sources. The School Attendance Department has a complete list
of all out-of-school cases, and of those already placed in various
institutions. These cases are notified to the School Medical Officer
as they arrive, and are followed up by a Special Nurse. They
are also examined (by the Chief Assistant School Medical Officer)
to ascertain their fitness for school or otherwise. Some go back
to the Elementary Schools, many go to the Special Schools, but
the majority are found unfit for school.
Measles, 247
Whooping Cough, 534
Tonsillitis, 214.
Chicken Pox, 945
Mumps, 250
Other Diseases, 1,747
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