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SANITARY CONDITION OF SCHOOLS.
The conditions of sanitation in the schools are generally
excellent, and 1 have nothing to add to the comments that I
made in my last Report.
ORGANISATION OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE.
This remains as formerly, and calls for no special remarks.
We have inaugurated no new schemes during the past year. I
should like, however, to express my regret at the departure of
the Clinic Nurse, Miss E. Hubbard, to whose devoted work
much of our success at the School Clinic has been due. She
was decervedly popular both with the parents and children.
EXTENT AND SCOPE OF THE WORK.
During the year the school nurses made 924 visits to the
schools and 966 visits to the homes of children. At these visits
to the schools the nurses made a cursory examination of no
less than 32,819 children, inspecting them for obvious defects,
such as skin disease, sore eyes, discharging ears or verminous
conditions. These inspections, are of great value, and result in
securing treatment for disease conditions before they become
chronic and difficult to be cured. A summary of the work of
the school nurses will be found in Table 10.
The Routine Examination of children has been carried out
as usual during the year, and does not call for special comment.
Three age-groups of children were examined, the entrants aged
5-6, the intermediates aged 8-9 and the leavers aged 12-13.
The number of children examined in each school will be seen
on reference to Table 8. The defects that were discovered at
the routine inspection are shown in Table 2.
GENERAL REVIEW OF FACTS DISCLOSED BY MEDICAL
INSPECTION.
Malnutrition.—Out of 2,212 children examined at the
routine inspection during the year, 148 were found to be suffering
from malnutrition. The chief causes of malnutrition are