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2. Non-Routine Inspections.—
(a) Special Inspections—these are carried out at the health
centres and are generally of children referred to the
School 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.
Physically defective children are re-examined periodically as
required and mentally defective children are re-examined
annually and their mental quotient re-assessed.
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.
NUTRITION.
It is interesting to note the figures which are contained
in Table II.B. at the appendix of this report from which it
will be seen that out of 5,497 children examined at routine
medical inspections only 27 could be regarded as badly
nourished.
In addition to these found at routine examinations 213
children were found, as a result of special examinations, to
be suffering from varying degrees of sub-nutrition, where the
condition appeared to be due to a faulty dietary, advice was
given and if considered necessary additional nourishment was
prescribed and during the year 301 grants for additional
nourishment were made and 195 children received this additional
nourishment, free of charge, where the economic
circumstances of the family fell within the prescribed scale.