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MEDICAL INSPECTION IN SCHOOLS.
The system of routine medical inspection is now as follows—■
A. Primary and Modern Secondary Schools.
(1) Entrants i.e., Children admitted for the first time to a
Maintained School.
(2) S-year-old i.e., Children who had attained their 8th
Group birthday at the opening date of the
Term but have not yet reached their
9th birthday and who have not been
medically examined at the age of 8
years.
(3) Primary i.e., Children in their last year of attendance
Leavers in a Maintained Primary School and
who have not been medically examined
in that year.
(4) Leavers i.e., Children in their last year of attendance
(Final) in a Maintained Secondary School
who have not been medically examined
in that year.
(5) Special Cases i.e., Children of other ages who are appar-
(if any) ently defective and whom the Head
Teacher and parents wish the Medic?!
Officer to see at his next visit.
A total of 11,573 children were examined as compared with
12,978 in 1951, and 7,921 parents attended the examinations. The
percentage attendance of parents in the Entrants' group was for
boys 91.1 per cent, and girls 91.2 per cent.; in the Intermediate
group, boys 57.8 per cent., girls 67.0 per cent.; in the Leavers'
group, boys 9.4 per cent, girls 32.5 per cent.; and in the Other
Ages group, boys 74.7 per cent., girls 78.0 per cent.
The total percentage of parents attending was 68.5 as againsft
68.7 last year.
842 specials and 344 re-inspections of children were carried
out.