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Duties of Assistant School Medical Officers.
1.—Assistant School Medical Officers will be required by the
Local Education Authority to act under the immediate superintendence
of the School Medical Officer, and to carry out the
duties in regard to medical inspection imposed by section 13 (b)
of the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907; the
requirements of the Board of Education as set out in the
Memoranda, Circulars 576, 582 and 596; and such other duties
as may from time to time be determined by the Local Education
Authority.
2.—Each Assistant School Medical Officer will be expected
to visit his school or department not less than once during each
week of the school year.
3.—In addition to the systematic inspections to be made in
accordance with the instructions of the Board of Education, the
Assistant School Medical Officers shall advise the Head Teacher
on any matter necessary to the general health of the scholars
and as to cases specially referred to them by the school teachers.
Questions requiring medical knowledge for their answer are
constantly arising in connection with the scholars attending public
elementary schools, and these can fittingly be dealt with during
the school visits.
4.—All communications to parents other than those arising
out of actual interviews at the schools will be made by the Chief
School Medical Officer.
5.—Particular directions as to duties will be furnished from
time to time as occasion requires, but in general terms these have
already been defined in the Memoranda of the Board of Education
already referred to.
6.-—The Local Education Authority reserve to themselves
the right, should occasion arise, to withhold the whole or part
of the salary of or to forthwith determine the appointment of any