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NOTES ON TABLE I.
(a) The return refers to a complete calendar year.
(b) This heading relates solely to the routine medical inspection of
the three ordinary age groups, i.e., to medical inspection carried out:—
(i) In compliance with Article 17 of the Consolidated Regular
tions relating to Special Services—Grant Regulations
No. 19.
(11) on the school premises (or at a place specially sanctioned
by the Board);
(ill) for the purpose of making a report on each child on the
lines of the approved Schedule set out in Circular 582.
(c) Under this heading may be recorded routine inspections, If any, of
ohildren who do not fall under the three prescribed age-groups, e.g., routine
inspections of a fourth age-group or of other groups of children, as distinct
from those who are individually selected on account of some suspected
ill-health for " Special " Inspection.
(d) A Special Inspection is a medical inspection by the School Medical
Officer himself or by one of the Medical Officers on his staff of a child
specially selected or referred for such inspection, i.e., not inspected at a
routine medical inspection as defined above. Such children may be selected
by the Medical Officer during a visit to the Sohool or may be referred to
him by the Teachers. School Nurses, Attendance Officers, Parents, or otherwise.
It is immaterial for the purpose of this heading whether the children
are inspected at the Sohool or at the Inspection Clinic or elsewhere. If a
child happens to come before the School Medical Officer for special inspection
during a year in which it falls Into one of the routine groups, its routine
inspection should be entered In Part A of Table I. and its special inspection
in Part B. The inspection to be recorded under the heading of special
inspections should be only the first inspection of the child so referred for
a particular defect. If a child who has been specially inspected for one
defect is subsequently specially inspected for another defect, such subsequent
inspection should be recorded as a Special Inspection and not
as a Re-inspection.
(e) Under this heading should be entered the medical inspections of
children who as the result of a routine or special inspection come up later
on for subsequent re-inspection, whether at the School or at the Inspection
Clinic. The first inspection in every case will be entered as a routine or
special inspection as the case may be. Every subsequent inspection of the
same defect will be entered as a re-inspection.
Care should be taken to see that nothing is included under the head of
special inspections or re-inspections except such inspections as are defined
above. Attendances for treatment by a Nurse, or for examinations by anyone
other than a Doctor on the staff of the School Medical Service, should not
be recorded as medical inspections. If, however, at any such attendance
a child is also examined by one of the Authority's Medical Officers, this
should be recorded as a special inspection or re-inspection as the case may
be, even if treatment is also given; but such attendance may also of course
be recorded as an attendance for treatment.