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The age groups selected for inspection are those laid down by
the Board of Education, viz.—
1. All new entrants (5 year old children).
2. Intermediates (8 year old children).
3. Leavers (12 year old children).
4. Other Routine Inspections.
Children attending the Spring Grove Central School are
examined yearly.
The total number of routine medical inspections carried out
during the year was 2869, which is slightly less than the number
inspected last year, and 400 more than were inspected in 1929.
The school population, however, has been increased during the
past year by nearly 1,000 children, so that many more sessions
must of necessity be devoted to school medical inspection during
1932.
Disturbance of School Arrangements.
No one supposes that the ordinary school curriculum is not disorganised
to some extent by the needs of medical inspection,
especially where all the available accommodation is required for
educational purposes. The Head Teachers of the district, however,
are to be congratulated upon the arrangements they make under
such difficult conditions, and I should like to place on record once
again my appreciation of the fact that the inspecting Medical
Officer is always made as comfortable as circumstances permit.
5 FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.
(0). Uncleanliness.
The number of cases discovered at routine medical inspections
was 110, and special medical inspections at the Clinics revealed a
further 543 cases.
Three hundred and three children were excluded from school
during the year on account of nits or vermin.
(b). Tonsils and Adenoids.
A total of 205 children were found to be suffering from
enlarged tonsils, and of these 133 were referred for operation and
72 for observation.
Forty-six children had Adenoids only, 26 being referred for
treatment and 20 for observation.
In a further 211 cases both conditions were present,
154 children being referred for operation and 57 for observation.