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Temporary Iron Classroom —Internal Decoration.
Special Subjects Centre:—Partial Internal Decoration.
Pelham School:—Periodic external painting of main
block, Conveniences, Shelters, and Fences.
During the holidays, the drains of all schools were
tested, the water supplies and fittings overhauled, and the
schools were thoroughly disinfected and cleansed.
Medical Inspection.
Numbers Inspected.
Owing to the above-mentioned changes in scheme and staff
the numbers examined at Routine Inspections during 1923
were reduced. The number of Individual Children examined
was 3,046.
In addition to the 1,421 children inspected at Routine
Examinations, 48 children attending the Special School were
also examined, and the special census detailed at the end of this
Report necessitated the examination and re-examination of 461
children.
" Inspection Clinic."
This special Clinic is held on Tuesdays between the hours
of 2-5 p.m. The children, who are brought by their parents,
are examined by the Assistant Medical Officer, and advice is
given as to general health, exclusion from school, and other
matters of similar nature. No medical treatment is given or
prescribed, and cases requiring such treatment are either referred
to the family doctor or to hospitals. Many of the
ailments are of such a simple nature that no medical practitioner
would be consulted even if the parent were able to
pay, for the children would simply be kept from school for
an indefinite period without treatment until "they felt better."
From the attendance point of view alone it is better that thq
parents of these children should receive advice as to the duration
of exclusion for an earlier return to school is thus ensured.
Children with simple sore throats, for example, can be excluded
until the result of the swabbing is known, or, in other "suspected
infections," until all danger from possible infection is
obviated.