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Report of the County Medical Officer—Education.
teachers, not less than 17; training college students, not less than 18 on 1st August of the year of
admission to a college; domestic economy training scholars, 18 to 30. The results of the medical
examination shown in Annendix XVIII.

Medical inspection in training colleges, secondary and trade schools.
Since 1908 medical inspection has been carried out in all the Council's training colleges,
secondary schools, trade and technical schools. Each student is examined once a year, and each
institution visited once in six weeks, so that the doctor can be consulted concerning pupils presenting
any symptoms likely to affect their health or work. Every student has a medical record card showing
at a glance the condition, so that the students are continually under observation and are not permitted
to continue at the institution if through illness or other causes they become unfit. Appendix
XIX (A) shows the defects noted.
L.C.C. Tramline
Colleges
Secondary
and Trade
Schools
The principals, head masters and head mistresses thoroughly recognise the advantages to be
gained not only to the scholar but indirectly to the school, for the efficiency of teaching must largely
depend on the receptivity of the pupil and this again on conditions of good health. More and more
do those in authority tend to consult the doctor on health questions, and they devote a considerable
amount of time and energy to interviewing and writing to parents with the result that steps are taken
to remedy the defects found. This co-operation of principals, parents and students with doctors
brings about a harmonious working of the scheme with most gratifying results. Appendix XIX (.13)
shows the conditions remedied.
In October, 1911, it was decided that the Council's scholars in attendance at non-maintained
secondary schools, and all scholars attending aided trade and domestic economy schools at which a
system of medical inspection had not been adopted should be periodically examined. These examinations
began in the year 1912 and were continued in 1913. In many cases the scholars were
examined at the institutions at which they were in attendance, but in others the examinations were
conducted at the head office in order to meet the wishes of the governors who preferred such an
arrangement on the ground either of lack of accommodation, or the undesirableness of differentiating
at the schools between the holders of the Council's scholarships and other pupils. As in the Council's
institutions a medical record card was filled in for each scholar so that the scholars were continuously
under observation and were thus not permitted to continue at the institution if through illness
or other causes they became unfit. The head masters and mistresses exercised vigilance and showed
keenness in obtaining prompt treatment of any ailments noted at the medical examinations, and the
parents responded to their efforts.
Non maintained
institutions