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The schools that do not appear on the above list were
examined late in the year 1910, and as it was found quite
impossible to inspect all the schools these two were omitted
from the year's list.
Three half-days a week during the school terms are
devoted to the routine medical inspection of the children by
your Medical Officer, and the average time spent in the actual
examination of oach child averages about seven minutes. This
does not take into account the large number of "special"
examinations that are made at the schools for particular
ailments, such as Infectious Disease, Ringworm, etc., and for
unclcanliness. Many children are also seen at the Council
Offices.
Preservation of Records, Etc.
In connection with the Medical Inspection a
"record card" is kept for every child examined, and
considering how often it happens that a child leaves a
school to go to another in or outside the district, a careful
method of dealing with the cards is necessary. The idea
is that a child shall have a card with a complete medical record
from the time of beginning school life to the time he leaves
school altogether, and this often implies an interchange of the
results of individual examinations between two Education
Authorities. Unless the organisation is very good, the difficulty
of finding any particular card of a child who has left
school appears to be great, and application for such is not
always successful. The Secretary of Education has evolved a
very good method, and he is able to at once put his hand
upon the record card of any child who has been examined.
Upon admission to the school every child has a medical
inspection card made out, and upon this is recorded the
infectious diseases from which the child has already suffered.
This is kept in the folio for the class to which he goes. Each
week the Head Teacher sends to the Education Office a return
of all the children who have been admitted to, or who have