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Arrangements for and Scope of Medical Inspection.
The arrangements have been the same as in former years. Three age
groups have been inspected, the entrants (the majority of whom were five or
six years of age), the ten-year-old group and the leavers. In 1914 the last class
embraced all children over twelve years of age.
Two thousand four hundred and nine children were passed
through the routine inspection.

The parents were present at 42.4 per cent. of the total inspections; at
18.6 per cent. of the elder boys', at 35.1 per cent. of the elder girls'; at 56.8 per
cent. of the infant boys', and at 62.5 per cent of the infant girls' inspections.
There were objections to medical inspection on the part of the parents in
the case of 10 children, 7 boys and 3 girls; or 0.54 per cent. of boys and 0.27
per cent of the girls.
The number of re-inspections made during the year was 1441.
The attendances of specially-referred cases and absentees clue to illness at
the School Medical Office at the Town Hall was 1,712, compared with 1,626
last year. I carried this work on myself after Dr. Rock left in July.
In non-war times visits are made to the Schools for routine inspection in
the case of Infants' Schools twice a year, and in the case of other schools once
a year. In the case of the latter schools however, a second visit is made in
order to deal with cases which were absent from school at the previous inspection.
Re-inspections take place twice a year at every school.