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The following table gives a summary of the medical inspections made during the
year and comparisons with previous years.

Other Inspections
Reinspections
1938 1946 1947 1948
252,693 130,452 151,443 172,594
132,240 69,912 84,227 8.8,243
384,933 200,364 235,670 260,837
There has been an overall increase in the volume of work carried out by the school
health service on medical inspection in 1948 compared with the two previous years;
the volume is still less than pre-war but the school population is smaller than in 1938.
The proportion of routine inspections in the different age groups approximates
to the proportions of 1947 except in the "Leaver" and "other ages" groups.
The number in the "Leaver" group in 1947 was low because of the raising of the
school leaving age in that year but it has reached more normal proportions in 1948.
The "other ages" group covers all those inspections outside the categories listed
above and includes pupils who have missed their particular age group inspection,
the 12 year old pupils in the secondary schools who were not examined in their last
year in a primary school and other inspections from the former grammar, technical
and central schools. The significant fall in the proportion of "other age" group
inspections may be an indication that the routine of medical inspections is becoming
stabilised and that fewer pupils are missing their particular age group inspection.
The number of inspections in the nursery group is greater than the number of
children in the nursery schools and classes as every child is examined each term.
The following table gives a more detailed analysis of the inspections:—

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