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THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE.
The work of the School Medical Service may be summarised
under the following headings:—
1. Routine Medical Inspection in School;
2. Non-routine Medical Inspection at the Inspection or
School Clinic;
3. Treatment of Defective School Children;
4. Observation of Specially Defective School Children.
There are ten public elementary schools under the control
of the Local Education Authority. Of these, one, Good Shepherd
Hall, is a temporary school for infants. Three schools are nonprovided.
The schools are divided into twenty-four departments, namely,
eight for boys, seven for girls, seven for infants, one for girls and
infants, and one for boys and girls and infants.
The remarks made in the Report for 1922 regarding the several
schools that are out of date still apply. In these schools the
facilities for medical inspection are far from convenient and the
value of the work done suffers to some extent in consequence.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
At the schools two kinds of inspection take place, (a) Routine
and (b) Non-routine.
(a) Routine examinations comprise those required by the
Board of Education for the three groups of school children:—
1. Entrants—all children admitted to school during the
year;
2. Intermediates—all children between the ages of
8 and 9 years;
3. Leavers—children between 12 and 13 years, and
those over 13 years not previously examined.
(b) Non-routine examinations are concerned with:—
1. Children presented by the head teachers for some
special or suspected defect;
2. Children requiring supervision for some defect found
at a previous examination (not in the same year).