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Taking our own area, which happily contains many
excellent private boarding and day schools mostly set in
surroundings above reproach, it is interesting to note that
there are upwards of thirty private schools accommodating
1,500 children, varying in individual accommodation from
4 to 170 scholars each.
Summary of Statistics, 1935.
School Roll 5,705
Number of individual children who
attended medical clinics 1,718
Number of individual children medically
examined at schools 1,767
Number of medical examinations at the
Clinic 5,386
Number of treatments at the Clinic 5,912
Number of treatments at the Dental
Clinic 3,808
Number of treatments at the Eye Clinic 398
Number of operations for Tonsils and
Adenoids 156
Total number of attendances at the
Orthopaedic Clinic 3,648
(i) For Consultations 673
(ii) For Treatments, massage, etc. 2,975
Total number of attendances at the Ultra
Violet Ray Clinic 1,511
Number of children referred to the Care
Committee 99
Hygiene of Schools.
I am indebted to Mr. G. P. L. Syms, Chief Education
Officer, for the following list of improvements which have
been carried out in the elementary schools during the year
under review:—
Princes Plain.—New Department to accommodate
400 mixed juniors and infants opened in September.
Mid-day meal arrangements provided.
Contract entered into for erection of new School
Clinic.