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together with those children absent at the previous medical
inspection, giving secondary groups of 6, 9 and 13 years of age.
The first routine medical inspection of the newly formed
Central School was held in 1925, in which case all the children
at the school were examined, the ages ranging from 11 to 15.
Children at this school are examined each year.
(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.
In most schools it is true to say that the provision of a room
for Medical Inspection upsets the existing arrangements of the
school—although there is not the same inconvenience since additional
school accommodation has been provided during the year.
Usually, however, in order to free a room for the Inspection,
two classes have to be taken in one classroom, which naturally
does not tend to popularise Medical Inspection with the teachers.
I should like to put on record, however, that the inspecting
Medical Officer is always made as comfortable as circumstances
permit—and that it is the schools which suffer the greater inconvenience
from having no extra room in which inspections can be
carried out.
In spite of these drawbacks, however, it still seems better to
hold the inspections at the schools—past experience showing that
in ,any other arrangement the necessary co-ordination between
Medical Officer and Head Teacher is lacking.
FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION, 1928.
Uncleanliness.
Out of 2,849 children examined at routine medical inspection,
78 were found to have nitty or verminous condition of the head,