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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
3,436. In 1934, 3,378 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.

Thirty-seven percent. of the children examined were vaccinated.
The comparative figure's for the last five years are as follows :—