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IV.—MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The medical inspections have been carried out on the same
plan 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 2,459. Of these, 626 were entrants, 749 belonged to the
second, and 552 to the third age-group, while 532 were of ages
outside these three groups.
In addition to these routine inspections 1.034 special cases
were examined, and 2,838 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, 1934, was 5,824. The
number examined by the School Medical Officers during the year
was 3,593.
V.—FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Tables II, 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
shows that of 1,927 children examined in the code age-groups, only
141 showed definite defects calling for treatment; while of 532
children examined at other ages, 43 were found to require treatment.
These figures must be regarded as very satisfactory.
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