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The total number of children on the registers of the elementary
schools on December 31st,.1938, was 5,224. The number examined
by the School Medical Officers during the year was 3,064.
V.—FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Full details of the medical inspections, the defects found and
the number for which treatment was provided are shown in the
statistical tables at the end of this Report. Table 1c shows the
number of children found at the routine inspections to require
treatment. This number is again very small, due in very large
fact to the close co-operation between the schools and the school
medical services, which ensures that defects in children are brought
to our notice in a large number of cases at a very early stage, so
that treatment may be arranged and provided weeks or months
before the children concerned are due for routine medical
inspection. In this way the number of defects requiring treatment,
which are found at the routine inspections, tends to be very
small.
(a) Nutrition.
Table IIb gives a classification of the nutrition of the children
inspected during the year in the routine age-groups. Of the total
number inspected in these groups the nutrition in 25.11 per cent.
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