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MEDICAL INSPECTION IN SCHOOLS
The system of routine medical inspection is 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 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) Inter- i.e., Children in their first year at a
mediates Maintained Secondary School.
(4) Leavers i.e.. Children in their last year of atten-
(Final) dance in a Maintained Secondary
School who have not been medically
examined in that year.
(5) Special i.e.. Children of other ages who are
Cases (if ently defective and whom the Head
any) Teacher and parents wish the Medical
Officer to see at his next visit.
A total of 11,195 children were examined as compared with
12,050 in 1956, and 6,592 parents attended the examinations. The
percentage attendance of parents in the Entrants' group was for
boys 86.7 per cent. and girls 89.6 per cent.; in the Intermediate
group, boys 38.8 per cent.; girls 51.7 per cent.; in the Leavers'
group, boys 9.3 per cent., girls 23.4 per cent.; and in the
Other Ages and 8 to 9 year group, boys 74.3 per cent., girls 81.3
per cent.
The total percentage of parents attending was 58.9 as against
65.3 last year. (See Appendix B, Table 3).
745 specials and 516 re-inspections of children were carried
out.