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authorising measures to be taken for the prevention of danger
arising to public health from the importation, preparation,
storage and distribution of articles of food and drink (other than
drugs or water) intended for sale for human consumption.
Education (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907.—
Medical Inspection of School Children.—This Act received
Royal Assent on the 28th of August, 1907, and is a measure for
the better administration by central and local authorities in
England and Wales, of the enactments relating to Education.
The portion of the Act (section 13) with which we are directly
interested concerns the medical inspection of school children
and is as follows :—
"13 (1) The powers and duties of a local education
"authority under Part III. of the Education Act, 1902, shall
"include :—
"(a) Power to provide for children attending a public
"elementary school, vacation schools, vacation classes, play
"centres, or other means of recreation during their holidays or
"at such other times as the local education authority may
"prescribe, in the schoolhouse or in some other suitable place
"in the vicinity, so far as the local education authority, in the
"case of a schoolhouse or place not belonging to them, can
"obtain for the purpose the use of the schoolhouse or place ;
"and
"(b) The duty to provide for the medical inspection of
"children immediately before or at the time of or as soon as
"possible after their admission to a public elementary school,
"and on such other occasions as the Board of Education
"direct, and the power to make such arrangements as may be
"sanctioned by the Board of Education for attending to the
"health and physical condition of the children educated in
" public elementary schools :
"Provided that in any exercise of powers under this
"section, the local education authority may encourage and
"assist the establishment or continuance of voluntary agencies,
"and associate with itself representatives of voluntary associa"tions
for the purpose.