View report page

112
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
(a) The classes of children medically inspected in Croydon and
the number examined in each class, 1st January, 1923, to 31st
December, 1923, are as follows :—
Routine Inspection.
Under the Regulations of the Board of Education :
Children admitted for the first time during the year 2148
Children comprising the intermediate group 2401
Children between the ages of 12 and 14 years and
other age groups 2541
Total 7090
Other routine inspections 138
Inspection of Selected Children.
Referred for defects suspected by head teachers,
attendance officers, school nurses, care committees,
etc. 1132
Other cases—
(i) Fitness for employment in accordance with
Bye-laws regulating the employment of
young persons—
Examined 297
Fit 294
Unfit 3
(ii) Candidates as bursars and student teachers 35
(iii) Children examined under "The Employment
of Children in Entertainments Rules,
1920 "—
Seen 10
Granted 10
Defective children re-examined 3133
Routine medical inspection was conducted in all cases on the
elementary school premises. The attendance of parents at such
inspections has been encouraged; a considerable part of the
benefit resulting from the examination lies in the opportunity
afforded to medical officers of a personal talk with the parents,
during the course of which measures for the prevention of the
particular type of ill-health to which the child may be prone can
be discussed.
Towards the end of the year it was found convenient to
modify the procedure for arranging inspections, and to allot each
elementary school, with all its departments, to an individual
medical officer, who could thus be responsible for supervising the
health of the children in attendance throughout the whole of their
school life.
(b) The Board of Education's schedule of medical inspection
has been followed in its entirety.