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in most cases, will not immediately be attainable. The
Board have, however, considered it desirable to treat the
plan of the Annual Report in such detail as to furnish
Local Education Authorities with a standard, by reference
to which they may regulate their arrangements for collecting
and digesting the information which the work of the
next few years will place at their disposal.
(a) General review of the hygienic conditions prevalent
in the Schools in the area of the Local Education
Authority in respect of such matters as surroundings,
ventilation, lighting, warming, equipment, and sanitation,
including observations on the type and condition of
sanitary conveniences and lavatories, water supply for
washing and drinking purposes, the cleanliness of schoolrooms
and cloakrooms, arrangements for drying children's
cloaks and boots, and the relation of the general arrangements
of the School to the health of the children.
(b) General description of the arrangements which
have been made for the co-relation of the School Medical
Service with the Public Health Service and for the organisation
and supervision of medical inspection, and an
account of the methods of inspection adopted, including—
(i) A statement of the extent (if any) to which the
Board's Schedule of Medical Inspection has
not been followed aiid the reasons for such
departure;
(ii) A statement showing the assistance given to the
School Medical Officer and his assistants by
nurses, managers of schools, teachers, attendance
officers or other persons ;
(iii) A statement showing the methods adopted for
securing the presence of parents at the inspec
tion and their co-operation in the subsequent
treatment of defects, together with a review of
the effect of such methods;