View report page

106
MEDICAL INSPECTION IN SCHOOLS
The system of routine medical inspection is now as follow
Primary and Modern Secondary Schools.
(1) Entrants i.e., Children admitted for the first ???
to a Maintained School.
(2) 8-year-old
Group
i.e., Children who had attained their ???
birthday at the opening date of ???
Term but have not yet reached ???
9th birthday and who have not ???
medically examined at the age of
years.
(3) Primary
Leavers
i.e., Children in their last year of attendance
in a Maintained Primary School
and who have not been medical
examined in that year.
(4) Leavers
(Final)
i. e., Children in their last year of attendance
in a Maintained Secondary
School who have not been medical
examined in that year.
(5) Special
Cases (if
any)
i.e., Children of other ages who are appa???
ently defective and whom the ???
Teacher and parents wish the Medical
Officer to see at his next visit.
A total of 12, 194 children were examined as compared with
13,796 in 1954, and 8,483 parents attended the examinations. ???
percentage attendance of parents in the Entrants' group was ???
boys 87.9 per cent. and girls 94.4 per cent.; in the Intermediate
group, boys 61.4 per cent., girls 67.4 per cent.; in the Leavers
group, boys 10.8 per cent., girls 31.8 per cent.; and in the
Other Ages and 8 to 9 year group, boys 77.5 per cent., girls 82
per cent.
The total percentage of parents attending was 69. 6 as against
68.8 last year.
594 specials and 385 re-inspections of children were carried
out.