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Routine Medical Inspection

One gratifying feature of this total is that although the total
number of children examined during 1960 had increased by 829
compared with the previous year, yet 7 fewer pupils were deemed
to be of unsatisfactory condition. In this connection, however, the
term 'unsatisfactory' applies only to the child's general physique and
the referral of minor defects to the ophthalmologists, ear, nose and
throat specialists and orthopaedic surgeons continued to fill the special
clinics to capacity.
Infectious Diseases in School Children, 1960
From the point of view of infection, 1960 was, generally
speaking, an uneventful year and, as had been anticipated, measles
remained relatively quiescent.
Poliomyelitis. Only one case of poliomyelitis occurred in a
school child during the year. This was a boy, aged six years, who
was admitted to hospital on the 30th November with evidence of
paralysis. On discharge from hospital, be was seen by a school
medical officer who found some residual weakness in his left leg, but
this has not prevented him from returning to his normal school.
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