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"of it to the Board of Education, with any observations"
"they may desire to submit, as soon as practicable"
"after the expiration of the year to which it relates. It"
"will be understood that Reports which are for the"
"information of the Board of Education may well include"
"statements of local circumstances and conditions which"
"would be superfluous if they were intended only for"
"the information of the Local Authority. The Annual"
"Report should relate to the Calendar year, and the"
"first Annual Report should be made up to the 31st"
"December, 1908."
In accordance with the above I now submit to you the Report
for the year 1909.
The inspections were commenced on 7th September, 1908,
when you appointed an Assistant Medical Officer (Dr. Kirkhope)
and a School Nurse to act under my instructions.
The system I adopt is as follows:—I call at a school, and in
consultation with the Head Teacher of the Department fix on
a room and arrange for the inspection of the children to take place
therein. Last year all the children were examined (whether infants
or older children) in the Infants' Department.
This year—1909—in some cases the older children have been
examined in their own Departments. This has been found necessary
to equalize the disturbance of the classes where the Infants'
Department has been full; for the same reason in some instances
a teacher's private room has been used in the place of a classroom.
The teacher then sends a printed notice to the parents of
the children to be examined,* requesting them to attend at the
school at a stated time.
By experiment I found that eight infants or six older children
could be examined in the hour : the older children requiring the
* See Appendix, page 104