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Medical Officer either by the teacher, the parent or health
visitor, for investigation of some suspected defect.
(b) Children supervised on account of some defect found at a
previous examination.
3. Re-Examination of the Physically and Mentally Defective
Children.—
Particulars of all inspections are found in the Board of
Education Statistical Tables at the end of this report.
FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
A detailed summary of defects found at both routine and
special inspections is contained in the Board of Education
Statistical Table II. at the end of this report. Of the 4,709 children
examined at routine medical inspections there were, excluding
uncleanliness and dental disease 725 defects found to require treatment
and 853 requiring to be kept under observation, there were
also 3,839 special examinations and as a result of these 1,806
defects were found to require treatment and 258 requiring to be
kept under observation.
Of the number of children examined at routine inspections
717 were found to require treatment for one or more defective
conditions giving a percentage of 15.28 as compared with 17.3
for the country generally during 1934.
NUTRITION.
As in previous years the possibility of malnutrition amongst
the school children has been constantly kept in mind by the staff
of the Public Health Department, in addition the school teachers
have co-operated in this work and at the latter part of the year
arising out of Circular 1443 of the Board of Education, the Committee
resolved that the attention of the head teachers should again
be drawn to the importance of their reporting all suspected cases
of sub-nutrition to the School Medical Officer. Arrangements
are thereupon made for these children to be medically examined
and where, as a result of this examination undernourishment is
confirmed, the children are supplied with additional nourishment
in the form of milk and cod liver oil, the reason for these foods