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5
MEDICAL INSPECTION IN SCHOOLS
The system of routine medical inspection is now as follows:
Primary and Modern Secondary Schools.
(1) Entrants
i.e., Children admitted for the first time
to a Maintained School.
(2) 8-year-old
Group
i.e.
(3)
mediates
(4) Leavers
(Final)
i.e.
(5) Special
Cases (if
any)
i.e.
i.e.
Children who had attained their 8th
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.
Children in their first year at a
Maintained Secondary School.
Children in their last year of attendance
in a Maintained Secondary
School who have not been medically
examined in that year.
Children of other ages who are apparently
defective and whom the Head
Teacher and parents wish the Medical
Officer to see at his next visit.
A total of 12,050 children were examined as compared with
12,194 in 1955, and 7,868 parents attended the examinations. The
percentage attendance of parents in the Entrants' group was for
toys 88.4 per cent, and girls 87.9 per cent.; in the Intermediate
group, boys 43.0 per cent.; girls 59. 6 per cent.; in the Leavers'
group, boys 9.0 per cent., girls 25.6 per cent.; and in the
Other Ages and 8 to 9 year group, boys 77.0 per cent., girls 78.5
Per cent.
The total percentage of parents attending was 65.3 as against
69.6 last year. (See Appendix B, Table 3).
769 specials and 555 re-inspections of children were carried
out.