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Some of the teachers give a great deal of their time to
the above work, and all are interesied in it, but the care and
accuracy with which it is done varies considerably from
school to school, and this lack of uniformity ds a drawback
to the efficiency of ihe School Medical Service.
(d)—As to Record Keeping.—As an 'instance of the
difficulty experienced in obtaining information which may be
required from time to lime by the Education Committee or
Board of Education, 1 may state that at the end of 1912
certain information was required by the Board for the purpose
of allocating grant to the Education Committee on
behalf of ihe School Medical Service.
I accordingly sent out to the Assistant School Medical
Officers a circular letter which I asked them to fill up so
that I might have the information required.
These circulars related to 75 schools and departments,
but in the cases of only 17 schools and departments were full
answers returned, while in 7 others only a small proportion
ol the information required was not forthcoming. In the
cases of the remaining 51 schools or departments, the information
was either not complete or approximations were
given.
(2) "Following-up."
It should be noted that the proceeding known as
"followiing up" is of no less importance than medical inspection
itself. It is adopted with the view of securing treatment
for children found defective on medical examination.
The steps necessary to insure the adequate "following up"
of medical inspection are :—
(a) To inform the parent of any defect or disease found
in the child ;
(b) To make inquiries, after a reasonable interval, as to
whether remedy has been obtained;