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Medical Inspection.
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special room reserved for medical inspection or in a
teachers' room. In seven school departments medical
inspection is conducted in a classroom which can be
easily set free for the purpose, either by joining two
classes together or by giving the children, who ordinarily
use the room, their school work in the playground.
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 the 4,734 children examined, 2,396 were found to
have one or more defects requiring treatment or supervision.
The total defects found were 1,103 amongst
children examined in a routine manner and 1,548
amongst those specially examined, or a total of 2,651.
Of the defects in the former group 502 were referred
for treatment and 601 for observation, and of those in
the latter group 1,254 for treatment and 294 for
observation^
Verbal notices to the number of 334 and written notices
to the number of 364, or a total of 698, were given to
the parents.
In order to satisfy the interest of a number of teachers
and to arouse that of the others, the practice was adopted
during the year of notifying each head-teacher of all
the children found defective on school medical inspection.
By this means the educational progress of the
children can be watched pari passu with their physical
condition as indicated by the medical reports.
(a) Uncleanliness.—In the course of routine medical
inspection 33 children were excluded on account of