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School for Blind and Partially Sighted Children.
Nine children from this Borough (all suffering from myopia)
attended during the year. This school is still accommodated at
Hale End Open Air School, and is in the charge of the Borough
of Walthamstow. By December, 1943, the school numbered 46
children. A satisfactory standard of health was maintained during
the year, and good progress was made by all the children.
EXAMINATIONS BY MEDICAL OFFICERS.
Number of adult staff, including teachers examined during
the year 16
HEALTH EDUCATION.
Dental Exhibition.
The Dental Staff arranged an exhibition at Park Lane Municipal
Medical Centre, some of the exhibits were also shown at the Chestnuts
and Lordship Lane Medical Centres.
Some of the parents still fail to appreciate the value of early
and regular dental care, and it has been found that there is still a
great deal of ignorance about this matter. The exhibition served a
useful purpose by bringing the facts of the importance of dental
work to the notice of parents and senior school children.
Schoolgirls attended Park Lane Centre for instructions by the
health visitors in infant care and management.
The children attending the two Medical Centres where Maternity
and Child Welfare work is also carried out in the same building, and
where there are nurseries, see the principles and practice of hygiene
presented in a most attractive way, this visual education being a
most valuable means of arousing their interest in the importance
of healthy living.