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During 1907, the Council decided to take no action in connection
with the proposal of the Corporation of Newcastle-on-Tyne
to form a permanent Union of the Sanitary Authorities of the
Kingdom into a supreme National Health Authority.
INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
The Council, during 1907, considered the important question
of the medical inspection of school children in relation to the
spread of infectious disease and of public health generally, and
agreed to the following principles;—
1. The systematic medical inspection of all school
children on admission into school, and at intervals afterwards,
for the discovery of general diseases and constitutional
defects and the provision (if necessary) of school
dispensaries or clinics.
2. The systematic periodical medical inspection of all
school children with a view to the discovery of infectious
and doubtful infectious diseases and the consequent exclusion
of such children from school;
3. The advisability of such inspection of school children
being carried out by the officers of existing Metropolitan
Borough Health Officers' administrative staffs, with such
additional help from medical practitioners as may be
necessary.
The above duties devolve upon Sanitary Authorities by
Section 13 of the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act,
1907, which comes into force on January 1st, 1908. The Board
of Education have issued a Memorandum, from which it appears
that it is the Board's intention that the inspection of school
children shall, as far as practicable, be part of existing Public