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At the Health Centres there were 2,698 non-routine inspections
of children who were submitted by the head-teachers, school
enquiry officers or school nurses on account of some defect or
suspected defect, and of whom 962 attended for re-inspection.
Consequent on a defect being found at a previous routine or nonroutine
inspection, 1,063 children were submitted to a reexamination.
There were, therefore, 4,723 special inspections or
re-inspections of children. Included in these numbers are the
physically and mentally defective children kept under supervision
and re-examined each year.
The total number of children attending public elementary
schools who were examined once at least during the year was
7,654. The average number of children on the school register
was 12,479. This means that 61 per cent, of the children on the
registers were medically examined during the year. The average
attendance at the schools was 88.3 per cent, of the children on
the registers.
FINDINGS OF SCHOOL MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The number of defects, apart from dental defects and uncleanliness,
noted on routine medical inspection at the schools
and on the occasion of the special inspections or re-inspections
are given in Table II. Among the 4,956 children examined in
a routine manner there were, excluding uncleanliness and dental
disease, 528 defects requiring treatment and 1,100 requiring to
be kept under observation without treatment; and among 2,698
children specially examined there were found 2,124 defects requiring
treatment and 290 requiring to be kept under observation. Of
the children examined at the routine inspections 10.6 per cent, were
therefore found to require treatment for defective conditions.
(a) Diseases of the Skin.—At the routine inspection there
were found three cases of ringworm of the body, 5 of impetigo,
one of scabies and 8 cases of other conditions of the skin.
The
cases met with at non-routine examinations, for which they had been
specially referred by the teachers or school nurses, were as follows:—