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SCHOOL HYGIENE.
Further steps have been taken during the year towards the improvement
and reorganisation of the older schools in the district, and the
new Rowland Hill Senior Boys' School has been completed.
The number of schools in the Borough, the number on roll and
average attendance for the year ended 31st December, 1938, is indicated
in the table on page 5.
CO-ORDINATION.
The School Medical Service has continued to be closely linked
with the Education Department, and also with both the Public
Health and Maternity and Child Welfare Services of the Local
Authority.
A further step has been taken during the year by the appointment
of a third full-time Dental Surgeon by the Education Committee, allowing
for two-thirds of a dental unit's time to be devoted to Maternity and
Child Welfare work.
The School Medical Service has continued its close co-operation
with the Juvenile Employment Central Bureau in the effort to ensure
that school leavers are placed in occupations suitable to their physical
welfare.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Routine.—The arrangements for medical inspection have undergone
slight revision during the year.
All children coming within the three routine age-groups, "entrants,"
"intermediates" and "leavers," have been inspected, and those found
to be unsatisfactory have been re-inspected. In addition, all children
on the rolls of the Nursery School and Lancasterian Nursery Classes have
been inspected and re-inspected at frequent intervals. All defects found
are notified to the parents and at the same time advice as to treatment
is given. Table II. A. (Appendix) gives statistics under this heading.