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(g) Candidates for the teaching profession shall be medically examined
on entry into a secondary school, on entry into a training college, and on leaving
a training college. Further medical examination shall take place only if the
parent of the intending teacher or head master, head mistress or principal has
doubts as to the suitability, on grounds of health, of the candidate for the
teaching profession, or if the result of the preceding medical examination
indicates that the case is one which requires to be kept under review.
Following upon the decisions of the Council in 1929, negotiations have been
conducted, as a result of which medical inspection has now been introduced into all
the aided secondary schools, and the difficult situation arising from the visitation
of schools by two different doctors has been removed.

* A = Maintained. B = Aided. C = Non-aided,
t In seven schools fee-payers only are examined by the governors' doctor, while scholarship holders
attend for inspection at the County Hall.
X In addition, children holding scholarships at 15 non-aided schools attend for examination at the
County Hall.
The figures subsequently analysed are derived only from the 84 schools in column
3 where the medical inspections are carried out by the Council's own staff.
No detailed reports of medical inspections are received from the schools in column
4, but the record cards of all scholarship children examined are sent for the
school medical officer's inspection at the end of each term.
The arrangements for treatment are as follows : a notice drawing the attention
of the parent to the need for treatment is sent by the principal, and, if the parents
are unable to make the necessary arrangements, facilities are offered at the school
treatment centres on the understanding that the full cost of treatment is borne by
the parent in the case of fee-payers, but in the case of Council and foundation
scholars, the charges are the same as for children in elementary schools.

* Examined at County Hall.