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  With the exception of the Special School, no facilities exist at any of the others for the drying of children's clothes or boots.

  School.		Number of children who do not return home for midday meal.	Whether facilities exist for heating of children's meals.	Whether facilities exist for the drying of children's clothes and boots.

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  The number of children examined as entrants, intermediates and leavers, besides those examined otherwise than during routine inspection, together with the percentage of defectives found, is furnished by the subjoined table:—

  	Entrants.	Intermediates	Leavers.	Specials.	Other Routine Examinations.	Total.

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  The following table shows the number of children examined at routine and special inspections during 1926, classified according to the schools attended, the number of inspections held in each school and the number of parents or guardians present:-

  COUNCIL SCHOOLS.
  School.	No. of inspections.	Numbers inspected.		No. of parents present.
  		Boys.	Girls.

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  For purposes of these inspections the various schools undivided between two school nurses, every school is fully inspected during each term, and the results of these examinations are as follows:—

  School.	Dept.	Nits only.	Nits and Vermin (head)	Body and clothing verminous.

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  (b) Heights and Weights.—The following table gives the average heights and weights of children examined at the three undermentioned age periods in four of the schools, compared with the results at similar age periods in 1925.

  Age Period	Average Height in inches.		Average Weight in pounds
  	1925.	1926.	1825.	1920.

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  A summary of the work of the two school nurses during the year is as follows:—

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  CLINICS.—The numbers of school children attending in 1926 were as follows:—

  Clinic.		No. of children seen.	Total No of attendances.

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  Skin Diseases .—Most skin diseases fall within the group of Minor Ailments, the following being under treatment during the year:—

  Ringworm.		Scabies.	Impetigo.	Other Skin Diseases.	Minor injuries.
  Head.	Body.

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  Particulars of work done in connection with Orthopaedic Clinic.

  No. of visits by Orthopedic Surgeon	No. of visits by Masseuse		ATTENDANCES
  			Primary Examination				Re-Examination						For Treatment					Total
  			School Children		Under School Age		School Children			Under School Age			School Children		Under School Age

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  Children on the Physically Defective Register may be classified under the following groups:—

  Atrophic and paralytic.	Spastic.	Tuberculosis (Surgical)	Injuries.	Congenital defects	Severe heart affections.	Acute infections.	Others (including marked postural defects.)

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  Details of inspections carried out are supplied from the following table:—

  	Entrants.		Intermediates (12 years old.)		Leavers. (15 years old.)
  	Boys.	Girls.	Boys.	Girls.	Boys.	Girls.

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  Re-Inspections.

  		Number re-inspected.	Number found to have been treated.

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  Thirty school children and seventeen children under school age were examined by me for the first time during the year, my findings being as follows:—

  SCHOOL CHILDREN.

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  CHILDREN UNDER SCHOOL AGE.

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  The following operations have been carried out:—

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  Particulars of this work may be found in the subjoined table.

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  TABLE 1.—RETURN OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.

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  TABLE II.— A. RETURN OF DEFECTS FOUND BY MEDICAL INSPECTION IN THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1926.

  Defect or Disease.		Routine Inspections.		Special Inspections
  		No. of	Defects.	No. of	Defects
  		Requiring Treatment.	Requiring to be kept under observation, but not requiring Treatment.	Requiring Treatment.	Requiring to be kept under observation, but not requiring Treatment
  (1)		(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)

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  TABLE II.— Continued.

  Defect or Disease.			Routine Inspections.			Special Inspections
  			No. of Defects.			No. of Defects.
  			Requiring Treatment		Requiring to be kept under observation, but not requiring Treatment	Requiring Treatment.	Requiring to be kept under observation, but not requiring Treatment.
  (1)			(2)		(3)	(4)	(5)

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  B.—Number of Individual Children FOUND AT Routine MEDICAL INSPECTION TO REQUIRE TREATMENT (EXCLUDING UNCLEAN LINESS AND DENTAL DISEASES).

  Group.	Number of Children.		Percentage of Children found to require treatment.
  	Inspected.	Found to require treatment

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  TABLE III.—RETURN OF ALL EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN IN THE AREA.

  			Boys.	Girls.	Total.

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  TABLE III.— continued.

  			Boys.	Girls.	Total.

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  TABLE IV.—TREATMENT TABLE. Group I.—Minor Ailments (excluding Uncleanliness, for which see Group V.).

  Disease or Defect.	Number of Defects treated, or under treatment during the year.
  	Under the Authority's Scheme.	Otherwise.	Total.

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  Group II.—Defective Vision and Squint (excluding Minor Eye Defects Treated as Minor Ailments—Group I.—.)

  Defect or Disease.	Under Authority's Scheme.	Number of defects dealt with.
  		Submitted to refraction by private practitioner or at hospital apart from the Authority's Scheme.	Otherwise	Total.
  (1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)

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  NUMBER OF DEFECTS.

  Received Operative Treatment.			Received other forms of treatment.	Total number treated
  Under the Authority's Scheme, in Clinic or Hospital.	By Private Practitioner or Hospital, apart from the Authority's Scheme.	Total.
  (1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)

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  Group IV__Dental Defects.

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  GROUP V.—UNCLEANLIXESS AND VERMINOUS CONDITIONS.