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throat condition 9, skin affection 4, personal hygiene 3, anæmia 2, ear affection 2,
and thyroid affection 1.
Examination of employees in the education service and scholars.
In the year 7,864 entrants to the permanent education service, and candidates
for teaching awards and for scholarships, presented themselves for examination.

* Including 10 permanent service cases (9 male, 1 female), 11 teaching awards (female)
and 20 scholarships (14 male, 6 female) referred from 1932.
t The causes of rejection were mainly defeats of vision, un-ati-factory general health and
morbid condition* of the heart.
In addition to the above, 137 examinations were made of scholars (59 male,
78 female) with a view to determining their fitness to continue to hold awards,
and of these 17 (9 male, 8 female) were found to be unfit.
Re-examinations totalling 1,954, were made of entrants, scholars, etc., who
were referred at the first exmaination for treatment for one or more remediable
defects.
Cases
specially
referred.
The total number of examinations was 9,996.
There were also referred to the public health department 3,510 special cases in
which medical advice was required. This figure includes 2,920 teachers (544 men,
2,376 women) and 590 schoolkeepers, cleaners, etc. (127 men, 463 women).
In regard to recommendations governing sick leave to teachers, 1,910 or 72 per
cent. of the teachers concerned were over 40 years of age ; this shows an increase of
1.8 per cent. on that of the previons year.
Teachers of
physical
education.
In connection with these cases 29 home visits were paid during the year.
During the year 242 applicants for admission to the Council's course of physical
education were examined. Of these 18 were deemed to be either temporarily or
permanently unfit to undergo the training on the following grounds : poor general
condition, 8 ; varicose veins, 3 ; rheumatism, 2 ; myopia, 4 ; recent injury, 1.