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Sanitary Administration.
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Sixty visits were paid to the schools by the school doctor ;
two were closed for Infectious Disease.
The Public Health Department visited the homes of 325
school children suffering from Infectious Disease. The diseases
comprised measles (116); German measles (126): scarlet fever
(53); diphtheria (62); tuberculosis (7) ; cerebro spinal fever (1).
At the Attendance Clinic 334 attendances were made by
school children; 153 children were examined by request of the
Attendance Officer, and 187 certificates were given.
At the School Medical Clinic 32 new cases attended, while
the total attendance of old and new cases numbered 330, the cases
treated being chiefly skin diseases, sore eyes, and running ears.
In the schools, 1,025 children were medically inspected, as a
routine group, and 164 as a special group. The chief defects noted
in the 1,025 routine cases were :—
Unsatisfactory clothing 14.8 per cent.
,, footgear 138 „
Want of soap and water 11 .3 „
Nutrition below standard 18 7 „
Enlarged tonsils .. 3.6 „
Adenoids (marked) 107 „
Ear discharge 1.8 „
Teeth, four or more decayed 17.6 „
„ sound 36.3 „
Pretubercular 1.6 „
Heart disease .58 „
Skin disease 1.6 „
Dull or backward 3.5 „
Mentally defective .45 „
Poor vision 1.2 „
Bad vision 3.4 „
Squint .17 „
Poor hearing 1.4 „
Bad hearing 97 „
Unvaccinated .15 ,,