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3. To examine children excluded from schools on account
of ringworm or other contagious disease as to their fitness to
return to school.
4. To examine the children in the schools with the object
of controlling the spread of infectious diseases by the discovery
of early or "missed" cases of such diseases, which might
have been of so mild a type as to be overlooked by the parents
and allowed to attend school.
In connection with the occurrence of infectious diseases
amongst school children, the system of intercommunication
between the Public Health Department of the District Council
and the School Medical Officer continues to work very
satisfactory and is of undoubted value.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
Dr. Young, the Medical Officer of Health, has forwarded
me the following particulars of the County Inspector's work
during 1914:—
Article. Taken. Adulterated.
Milk 106 25
Butter 66
Coffee 4 —
Castor Sugar 4
White Precipitate Ointment 2 1
Total 182 26
HARROW BOUNDARIES.
It is hoped that when the Town planning scheme is.
accomplished the Mount Park area will be included in
Harrow, as to Harrow it naturally belongs.
SURVEYOR'S REPORT.
Mr. J. Percy Bennetts, your Engineer and Surveyor,
reports:—
The number of plans approved by the Council was:
79 Houses, 12 Shops and Dwelling Houses, 2 Flats, 17
Alterations and Additions, 2 new Buildings (not dwellings),,
1 Hall, and 4 Temporary Buildings.