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In addition, today there are nutrition surveys and there should, of course, be
other special surveys from time to time as necessity arises, or alternatively if there
are no nutrition surveys then routine medical inspections should be more numerous
than they have been in the past. It is unnecessary further to labour the fact
that medical inspection does play a far more important part today than it did
twenty years ago and that arrangements which were more or less adequate in those
early days are now hopelessly out of date.
The following table shows the number of children examined at school at routine
and special inspections during 1935, classified according to the schools attended,
the number of inspections held in each school, and the number of parents or
guardians present:—
School.
No. of
Inspection
Sessions.
Numbers Inspected.
No. of
Parents present
(Routine and
Special Exams.)
Routines
and Specials.
Re-Exams.
Bifrons
22
598
239
189
Cambell
63
1279
836
722
Church of England
14
253
171
88
Dawson
32
556
440
406
Dorothy Barley
43
753
672
594
Eastbury
23
568
219
295
Erkenwald
30
668
353
267
Gascoigne
25
625
269
371
Monteagle
38
653
504
516
Northbury
24
625
199
381
Park Modern
8
132
99
95
Ripple
26
490
352
399
Roding
39
666
491
497
St. Ethelburga's
7
181
60
29
St. Joseph's
6
110
49
75
Westbury
28
449
440
328
Totals
428
8,606
5,393
5,252
Of the 8,606 examinations at ordinary elementary schools, 6,071 were routine
examinations of children in the specified age groups, which figure may be compared
with 3,315 for the previous year. In addition, there were 824 routine examinations
of children of ages outside the three specified age groups, and 1,711 examinations
of children specially referred to your Medical Officers.