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1st April to 31st December.
There were 866 head and assistant teachers, 1,260 pupil teachers, 2,848 scholarship candidates,
526 training college students and 107 instructors and the schoolkeepers examined.
References.–509 references were dealt with, an increase of 31, or 6.5 per cent., when compared
with the number for the corresponding period of the previous year.
Scholarship Candidates.—The examination of candidates for scholarships for the year 1908
has resulted in a few being absolutely rejected, but a large number were referred back for medical or
other treatment and ultimately passed. There is still a considerable number of children of very poor
physique being passed as scholars.

Several candidates were passed who would have been rejected as pupil-teachers. A number
of cases were seen several times before being finally passed; 171 (boys, 30; girls, 141) were referred
back for two defects, and 20 (boys, 2; girls, 18) for three defects. The total number of cases referred
back was 790 (boys, 260; girls, 530), the percentage of the number referred back for more than one
defect on the total number referred back being 24.2 (boys, 12.3 per cent.; girls, 30 per cent.). It
should, however, be noted that of the cases accepted 1 girl had enlarged tonsils with speech affected;
another girl had a pronounced lateral curvature, 2 boys had organic heart disease compensated; 3 boys
had slight deafness arising from middle ear disease; 2 boys had hernia; another boy had high myopia;
and of 5 other girls, 1 had lateral curvature with anaemia, the second organic heart disease compensated,
the third organic heart disease, the fourth cardiac hypertrophy and old lung mischief, and the fifth
was a delicate type with lateral curvature.

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