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REPORT OF THE
SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER.
Area (acres) 12,400
Population (mid 1934) 74,664
Number of Schools 20
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
Average number on Books
of Elementary Schools 9,104 9,172 9,453 9,725 9,970
Average weekly attendance
8,049 8,205 8,495 8,685 8,857
ROUTINE MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Three age-groups are examined as required by the Board of
Education Grant Regulations No. 19 (1925). These groups are:—
1. Entrants.
2. Intermediates (children having attained their eighth
birthday).
3. Leavers, (children having attained their twelfth birthday).
The total number of children examined during the year was
3,378. In 1933, 2,869 were examined.
Routine Medical Inspection is carried out on the school premises
except in those cases where there is a school, or maternity
and child welfare clinic conveniently placed. During the year the
arrangements were continued whereby notices were handed to
children stating in lay terms the defect from which they were
suffering, with the request that they should hand these notices to
their parents. In addition to this, a visit is made subsequently by
the school nurse, who urges upon the parent the necessity of getting
the defect remedied.
Seventy-six per cent. of the children examined during the year
in the course of routine examination were accompanied by their
parents. The comparative figures for the last five years are as
follows:—
Percentage of children accom- 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
panied by parents 78 79 78 77 76
Thirty-seven per cent. of the children examined were vaccinated.
The comparative figures for the last five years are as follows:—