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MEDICAL INSPECTION.
A.—Routine Medical Inspection.
This heading relates solely to the routine medical inspection of
the three ordinary age groups, i.e., to medical inspection carried
out:—
(1) In compliance with Article 17 of the Consolidated
Regulations relating to Special Services—Grant Regulations
No. 19.
(2) On the school premises (or at a place specially
sanctioned by the Board).
(3) For the purpose of making a report on each child on
the lines of the approved schedule.
Number of Inspections in the prescribed groups.
Entrants 1,666
Second Age Group 1,260
Third Age Group 1,354
Total 4,280
It will be seen from the above that the number of such code
group inspections was 4,280 representing 31 per cent, of the number
of children on the school registers.
Of 4,280 children who were examined in the code age-groups,
3,511 (or over 82 per cent.) were accompanied by their parents.
B.—Other Inspections.
Special Inspections.—A special inspection is a medical
inspection of a child specially selected by the Medical Officer during
a visit to the school or referred to the Medical Officer by the
Teachers, School Nurses, Attendance Officers, Parents or otherwise,
i.e., an inspection other than a routine medical inspection.
The number of such special inspections during the year was
4,909, comparing with 3,804 during the previous year.
Re-inspections.—These are medical inspections of children
who, as a result of a routine or special inspection, come up later on
for subsequent re-inspection either at the school or at the Inspection
Clinic.
The number of re-inspections during 1936 was 13,109.