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SCHOOL MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.
EXTENT AND SCOPE OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
For the most part children have been selected for medical
inspection in accordance with the requirements of Section 58 (b)
of the Code.
The School Medical Officers aim at inspecting from 25 to 30
children in each session, i.e., primary inspections, and in addition
to these 10 others in whom defects had been found at previous
inspections, i.e., re-inspections. Other children suspected by the
teachers to be suffering from defects or disease may be brought
forward at medical inspections for examination and advice. These
are classified as " special cases."
The arrangements for the continuance of the medical history
of children who are transferred from one school to another are of
great importance. In Croydon when a child is received into school
from either another school in the Borough or from outside the
Borough, the head teacher makes enquiry for and obtains the
medical inspection card of the child from its previous school, and
special enquiry is also made as to whether the child is at that time
suffering from or excluded on account of its relation to any infectious
or contagious condition.
TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN INSPECTED
DURING 1914.