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General Review. 101
hygienic conditions are satisfactory and no comment
is required upon them, but in the second group special
reports were made regarding the defective sanitary
arrangments at St. John's Schools and the defective
flooring at the temporary school, Good Shepherd Hall.
The result of these reports was immediate remedial
action on the part of the Education Committee.
A survey was made of the sanitary arrangements of
the non-provided schools all of which come into the
second group of schools already mentioned, when it
was found that there were no serious defects demanding
immediate attention, but that eight out of the eleven
departments had trough closets operated automatically
by a cistern for each section of closets. These trough
closets require the closest attention on the part of the
caretaker to keep them in a sanitary condition and,
although every care appears to be taken, it is desirable
that they should be replaced by pedestal closets as
early as economic conditions will allow of the expenditure
of money on them.
Medical Inspection.
(a) The children medically examined were those in the
three groups required by the Code of the Board of
Education. They included (1) all the children admitted
to school during the year, (2) all children between 12
and 13 years of age, together with children over 13
years who have not already been examined, and (3)
all children between 8 and 9 years of age.
In addition there were examined in the course of
routine school medical inspection children outside
these groups who were submitted by the head-teachers
on account of some defect or suspected defect, these