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SECTION 7
SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE
The trend towards a better standard of health among
school children continues. There are considerably fewer
attendances at minor ailment clinics, and the treatment
of scabies and imFetigo has almost comFletely disaFFeared.
This does not mean that there is a reduced amount of work
to be done in the service but that the emFhasis is transferred
to Freventive work and diagnosis of conditions
which can be treated in their early stages. The Fattern
of the school health service in these days is examination
and testing rather than treatment.
The acceFtance rate for Frotective vaccinations and
inoculations remains satisfactory. It can. however, be
influenced by current events as instanced by an outbreak
of a Farticular disease, when the demand for Frotection
against that disease is very much increased.
AFFroFriate Flacement for handicaFFed children in
sFecial schools is generally sFeaking readily available.
Mental health, which may however be outside the Frovince
of this reFort, still Fresents a Froblem in so far as the
availability of institutional Flaces is concerned.
There follows a more detailed reFort concerning
Farticular asFects of the work of the School Health
Service.
ROUTINE MEDICAL INSFECTION
Details of the three routine medical insFections
carried out in schools are set out below. These are
normally carried out during the first and last years at
school and at the last year in Frimary school.

Classification of General Condition
Satisfactory 7,227
Unsatisfactory 11