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The School Medical Service in relation to
Public Elementary Schools.
School Hygiene.
The school buildings and the sanitary arrangements are
periodically inspected.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The afternoon sessions are chosen when possible, as it is found
to be more convenient for those parents who desire to be present.
Parents whose children are found to be defective and who
require medical treatment, are duly informed of the necessity of
medical advice being sought. The children are kept under
observation either in the schools or at the Clinics until treatment
has been obtained.
(a). Age Groups Inspected.
The selection of children due for routine medical inspection
during 1922, includes those children born during the years,1910,
1913 and 1916, together with those absent at the previous medical
inspection.
(b). Board's Schedule.
In all cases the Board's Schedule of medical inspection has
been followed.
(c). Disturbance of School Arrangements.
The accommodation available for the purpose of medical
inspection varies in different schools. In some, the head teachers
rooms are used, but as a rule they are insufficiently large for
vision testing; in others a class room or part of a class room,
more or less screened off has to serve.
During the year, on the 28th August, permission was received
from the Board of Education for the Routine Medical Inspection
of the Isleworth Blue, Worple Road and St. Mary's Schools to
be held at the Isleworth Public Hall on account of the inadequate
accommodation at these schools. This is a great improvement,
but unfortunately, owing to the new uses to which the Upper
Hall is now being put since its re-decoration, the quiet that it