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Medical Inspection.
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produced very necessary sanitary improvements, the
need for which was reported upon in the previous year.
The trough closets have been abolished and pedestal
closets substituted, the urinal has been improved,
lavatory basins installed and a new entrance with
cloakroom accommodation has been provided.
Of the other ten schools six are of comparatively
recent construction, having been built since 1905,
and the general hygienic conditions are satisfactory.
Four of the others are old and fall short of modern requirements,
and one is a temporary school.
Medical Inspection.
(a) The children medically inspected 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 had 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
being called non-routine cases, and also re-inspection
cases submitted for re-examination on account of
their having been found on a previous inspection to
have some defective condition requiring supervision.
In the twelve public elementary schools under the
Local Education Authority at the beginning of the year,
there were twenty-six departments, eight for boys,
seven for girls, eight for infants, two for boys, girls
and infants (mixed), and one for girls and infants.
In the middle of the year a mixed school for boys and
girls was closed.