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PROVISION OF MEALS.
(i) A hot mid-day meal of two courses is provided for children
attending the Special School, parents contributing to the
cost thereof according to means. Meals are served in the Dining
Hall of the School under the supervision of certain teachers, who,
at the close of the children's dinner, are supplied with meals at a
nominal charge. Food is cooked in the Municipal Kitchen,
arrangements existing for keeping food hot during transit and at
the school before service. The actual service of meals is in the
hands of assistants, although selected children take part in its
distribution.
(ii) All but a few children as shown by the foregoing table
can return home for the mid-day meal.
(4) MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The first table in the appendix shows the number of children
inspected and ages at inspection, the Board's scheme being
followed throughout. Every child is submitted to routine medical
inspection three times during its school life as one of the fundamental
functions of the School Medical Service, the system employed
ensuring that no child is omitted. Briefly all the schools
in the district are visited in rotation each term. Head Teachers
sending to parents notice thereof according to an
arranged programme. Parents are specially urged to attend
the Inspection.
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:—