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following-up cards used for children with defective vision sets
out a complete history of the oculist's notes.
Duties of School Nurses.
Generally speaking the duty of a school nurse is concerned
mainly with the treatment of children at clinics, with the giving
of assistance to the medical officers in connection with inspections
at schools, with the following-up of children and with duties
regarding uncleanliness surveys.
A special enquiry nurse is attached to the office, her chief
duties being in connection with children attending special schools,
with out-of-school children and with assisting at medical inspections
carried out at the office. These inspections include the
examination of children who are recommended for admission to
special schools or to Fyfield Open-air School.
Other examinations carried out at the office include those
of mental defectives, children requiring licences under the Children
and Young Persons Act for singing and dancing and all cases
referred for admission to institutions.

IX. INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The "General Regulations for the Management of Provided
and Non-Provided Public Elementary Schools" contains full particulars
of the exclusion periods which have been approved by the
Board of Education, and this booklet is in the hands of all head
teachers. No teacher or pupil is allowed to attend school while
he is suffering from any disease which is regarded as being
infectious or contagious. A teacher who suspects that any pupil
is suffering from any such disease must immediately report the
fact to the head teacher, who should exclude the child from school
and notify the school medical officer of his action. Exclusion of
contacts is also practised in every case in which the presence of
an infectious disease in the household warrants this action. Knowledge
of the existence of infectious cases may be obtained from
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