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MEDICAL INSPECTION OF CHILDREN IN PUBLIC
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1909.
To the Chairman and Members of the Local Education Authority.
Gentlemen,
I beg leave to submit my Annual Report for the year
1909. The Report for the year 1908 contained merely a statement
of the arrangements made for carrying out the provisions
of Section 13 Sub-section (b) of the Education (Administrative
Provisions) Act, 1907.
The work of medical inspection was not actually commenced
until the month of February, 1909. It may be well, however,
briefly to recapitulate what these arrangements were.
In the month of December, 1908, the Medical Officer of
Health was appointed also School Medical Officer, and in compliance
with your instructions submitted alternative schemes for
carrying out the work of medical inspection,
(a) By the employment of all-time Assistant School
Medical Officers, and
(b) By the appointment of medical practitioners practising
in the district to act in this capacity by devoting an
hour or two each week to the work of medical
inspection.
Upon the submission of the Report you decided for one year,
and as an experiment, to employ the part time services of the
local medical practitioners, and the following statement shows in
tabulated form the actual appointments made:—