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Medical Inspection.
making an average attendance 86.9 per cent. As
4,734 children were medically examined out of a total
average attendance of 6,337, it means that 74.7 percent.
of the children in attendance were medically
examined in the year.
(b) The Board's Schedule of Medical Inspection has
been adhered to in every respect.
(c) To secure the early ascertainment of children
suffering from crippling defects particular steps are taken
each year. In the first place, all crippled children under
the supervision of the Child Welfare Centre are transferred
as they reach school age to the School Medical
Department, their record-cards being passed on in a
routine manner ; in the second place, it is the duty
of the School Attendance Officers to give immediate
information to the School Medical Officer of all crippled
children coming to their knowledge ; thirdly, the headteachers
have to notify to the School Medical Officer
any additions to the official list of crippled children
attending each school; and lastly, a particular medical
survey of all crippled children, whether attending or
not attending school, is made each year to ascertain
their progress and to determine the need for treatment,
the official list of cripple children being then checked
and each school being supplied with its corrected list.
Special record cards of all crippled children are kept
in a separate file, a note being made of each medical
examination and of the result.
(d) In the course of medical inspection the school
arrangements are hardly disturbed. In most of the
schools the inspection can be carried out either in a