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(Sowri'inrnl lo l»o lavishing so much eftro uml so much money upon
llK. (,, iitincnt of advanced disease, whilo doing so littlo to arrest disease at
jl:l source. I am certain that a children’s doctor would bo a sound invest-.
„JCut in the end, and I udviso your Highness lo consider the appointment
of oar.

JJut if a children’s doctor cannot bo afforded, or until ouo cau bo
nHorded, a very great doal could be dono by tho school authorities, workiug
in conjunction with tho local dispensaries, always provided that additional
dispensaries wero built iu thoso villages which havo schools but no medical
services. I suggest that your Highness should issue firm instructions
to the new Inspector, to institute without delay, in all tho schools, and
himself carefully supervise, a complolo and woll-thought-oufc schomo of
health supervision—ono which will includo tho hooping by headmastora of
tho individual health records of ovory child on thoir registers, and a routiuo
which will ensure with po3itivo certainty that overy child who is absont
from school through sickness shall roceivo medical attention daily until its
return. In an earlier part of this Boport I havo advocated tho creation of
,6chool*aUcndanco olliccrs, and, in a lator part, a certain amount of froo timo
during school hours for headmasters, and thoso two innovations, if mado,
would coulributo greatly towards tho success of tho hoalth supervision
scheme which I am now urging.

Finally, I suggest that, in order to keep tho principle of school hoalth
clearly and permanently in tho minds of schoolmasters and children alike,
there should bo displayed prominently on the walls of every classroom, in
all tho schools, a notieo to the offcct that “There can bo no sound education
without sound hoalt b."