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(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.
The cases brought to the notice of the Public Health
Department by the School Attendance Officer during the year
were as follows:—
Measles (including German
Measles), 2346.
Whooping Cough, 626.
Tonsillitis, 365.
Chicken Pox, 767.
Mumps, 537.
Other Diseases, 1342.
(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, 296 school children were sent away for
varying periods of convalescence.
During the same period, 30 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.
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