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Three half-days a week during the school terms are devoted
to the routine medical inspection of the children by the
Medical Officer, and the average time spent in the actual
examination of each child is about seven minutes. A careful
examination of each child is made. If the parents were not
encouraged to attend, and a less thorough examination made,
the time spent might be somewhat curtailed, but this the
Committee rightly regard as undesirable. At times 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