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Additional Age Group at Central School.
The Education Committee decided in 1937 to provide for
the routine medical inspection of an additional age group in
the Boys' and Girls' Central School.
As stated earlier in the Report, the children examined
were those who had attained their fourteenth birthday during
the year. The total number inspected in this group amounted
to one hundred and nineteen.

These defects are included in the figures shown in Table
II. It would appear that the routine medical inspection of
this additional age group has been amply justified.
6. FOLLOWING UP.
The procedure for following up defects discovered during
the routine medical inspection in 1938 was as follows:—
Parents were informed of the defects detected in their
children during the routine medical inspections in the schools.
Where the defects were of a minor nature they were informed
verbally. In the case of more important defects the parents
received a printed notice advising them of the nature of the
trouble and of the need for obtaining treatment. A reexamination
card was made out for each such child. As soon
as possible after the inspection of the school had finished the
nurse returned to the school with the re-examination cards of
those children whose defects required special attention. When
necessary, home visits were also paid to such cases and the
parents interviewed.
The medical officer visited each school in the district twice
during the year in order to carry out the routine medical
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