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Medical Inspection of Children
Attending Public Elementary Schools.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Willesden Urban District Council, and of the
Education Committee.
Gentlemen,
In accordance with the instructions of the
Public Health Committee and the request of the
School Management Sub-Committee I have the
honour to submit the following report on Medical
Inspection of School Children.
The Education (Administrative Provisions) Act,
1907, is the outcome of a wide recognition of
the need to attend to the physical condition of
the children on whom such large sums are being
spent annually in the endeavour to train and
educate them into useful citizens
The fact has been established to the satisfaction
of Parliament that physical defects and disabling
diseases among children are extremely prevalent,
that there is ground to fe;ir that physical deterioration
of our people is threatening the national welfare
and efficiency, and that it has become imperative
from a National standpoint not only to investigate
the facts of physical deterioration, but to remedysuch
vital evils.
On the need for doing this, fortunately all
shades of political opinion are united. There may
be differences of opinion as to the kind or degree of