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In St. Paul's School alterations and extensions have been
carried out during the year, whereby an extra class room, a medical
inspection room, and a corridor have been provided, and improvements
made in the cloak-room and sanitary conveniences.
4.—MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The system of medical inspection has been as in previous years,
an inspection of all the children in the different code age-groups
having been made in each school during the year.
At the routine inspections the total number of children examined
was 2,348. Of these 714 were entrants, 711 belonged to the second,
and 635 to the third age group, while 288 were of ages outside the
three code age-groups.
In addition to these routine inspections, 968 special cases were
examined, and 1976 children re-examined. The "specials" are
children who are referred to the School Medical Officers by the
Nurses, Teachers or School Attendance Officers, or who are brought
for examination by parents or guardians. Many of these special
cases are seen at school at the time of the ordinary medical inspections
but the majority are seen at the School Clinic on Tuesday or Saturday
mornings. The children re-examined are those who have been
found at previous routine or special examination to be suffering
from defects which require either to receive treatment or to be kept
under observation.
The total number of the children on the registers of the elementary
schools on December 31st, 1933, was 6,042. The number
examined by the School Medical Officers during the year was 3,316.
5.—FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Tables II, and III and IV at the end of this Report give details
of the defects found as a result of medical inspection, and of the
treatment obtained by the children found in need of it. Table II A
shows the number of defects found, classified as either requiring
treatment or to be kept under observation, while Table II B shows
the actual number of children in each of the age groups examined
at the routine inspections, found to be in need of treatment. This
table shows that of 2,050 children examined in the code age-groups,
198 or 9.5 per cent. were found to show definite defects calling for
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