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General Statement. 105
(d) The extent to which disturbance of school
arrangements was involved by school medical inspection
may be taken as negligible, if at all noticeable. In
18 school departments medical inspection was conducted
either in a special medical inspection room or
in a teachers' room. In one school the children were
•examined in the medical inspection room of an adjoining
school, and in the remaining seven medical inspection
was conducted in a classroom, which had been vacated
by a class engaged at physical exercise or by a class
which was temporarily joined up with another, with
little disturbance of the ordinary school arrangements.
Findings of Medical Inspection. Review of the Facts
Disclosed.
In Table II (which is appended) a list is given of all
the defects discovered during school medical inspection,
whether routine or non-routine.
Of those children examined, 1,366 were found to
have one or more defects requiring treatment or supervision.
The total defects found were 1,547 amongst
children examined in a routine manner and 1,824
amongst those specially examined, or a total of 3,371.
Of the defects in the former group 990 were referred for
treatment and 557 for observation and of those in the
latter group 1,783 for treatment and 41 for observation.
Verbal notices to the number of 387 and written
notices to the number of 394, or a total of 781, were
given to the parents. To the teachers 24 verbal and
36 written notices were given respecting defective
children requiring special supervision.
Some of the defects found demand some comment
or particular notice.