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Conditions of employment are, generally speaking, satisfactory.
Unsatisfactory conditions have been reported to me on various infrequent
occasions and the necessary steps have been taken to see that certain
regulations were in future complied with. This is generally effected by
co-operation with the local Factory Inspector. The number of situations
filled by boys and girls in a year now reaches approximately 850, over 500
of this number being situations filled by boys. About 25 per cent, of these
juveniles are insurable in the National Health and Unemployment
Insurance Acts.
Co-ordination of the School Medical Service with the Juvenile
Employment Bureau is effected thus :—
(a) School Medical Cards are forwarded to the Juvenile Employment
Bureau after children have attained school leaving age.
(b) The School-leaving Employment Card provides a space for
" Health Report." Where this is conscientiously filled in by the Head
Teacher, it serves a very useful purpose when the child applies for
employment. Any special co-operation with the certifying Surgeon for the
district has, up to the moment not been found necessary.
(r.) In a few cases of young persons just left school the School Medical
Service has been of definite and immediate use to the Juvenile Employment
Officer by examination in cases of suspected goitre, myopia and other
troubles which might affect success when applying to the employer for a
particular vacancy.
Apart from cripples, applicants for employment are, generally speaking
in good physical condition.
Food Accessories and Drugs.
During the year, Cod Liver Oil, Malt and Oil, Parrish's Food,
Syrupus Ferri Iodidi, and Syrupus Calcii Lactophosphatis have been
supplied at the Treatment Centres to necessitous cases recommended by
the Medical Officers.