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9
Other
Medical
Inspectors.
fewer than 6,000 children. Apart from continued
growth in the number of children attending public
elementary schools in Willesden, this number will
be augmented each year until all the children
already primarily inspected have matured for their
second medical inspection when the number of
medical inspections will have reached about 9,000
per annum In addition to this routine, it will be
necessary for the Medical Officers engaged, to
examine children for specific purposes quite apart
from the systematised non-selective examinations.
Thus the occurrence in schools of communicable
diseases requires frequent special visits to particular
schools, the medical inspection of all scholars in the
affected classes, and the immediate exclusion of those
found to be suffering or suspected of developing the
disease in question. There is also the re-inspection
from time to time of physically defective children
already discovered.
Medical
Certificates.
Again the re-admission of children to school
after recovery from illness can only safely be permitted
in many cases after medical examination.
Where no medical practitioner is in attendance
or where the parents are unwilling to pay for an