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1. Routine Medical Inspections:—
(a) Entrants—all children admitted to school for the
first time during the year.
(b) Intermediates—all children of approximately 8
years of age.
(c) Leavers—children of 12 years and over.
2. The special inspection of children referred by the Head
Teachers, School Nurses, School Attendance Officers or
parents.
3. Annual inspection of physically and mentally defective
children.
4. The periodical re-inspection of children in receipt of
additional nourishment.
5. The annual inspection of children attending Secondary
Schools, on behalf of the Middlesex Comity Council.
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.
The nutrition of the children is still being carefully
assessed and the results will be found in Table II. B. and on
the whole can be regarded as satisfactory, differing very little
from last year's findings, a gratifying feature being the small
percentage of children whose nutrition was definitely bad.
The assessing of the nutritional standards of the children
in the slightly sub-normal group presents the greatest difficulties
and is liable to vary with the personal views of the
examining officer, but generally speaking a wide basis has
been taken for this group and all children were included
whose general standards of health were considered to be below
normal; nevertheless it is important that the most careful
assessment of nutritional standards should be maintained, as