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Medical Inspection. (Table I., page 12).
Medical Inspections were carried out during the year as
follows: —
1. Routine Inspections required by the Board of Education.
(a) Entrants;
(b) Intermediates;
(c) Leavers.
2. Other Inspections :
(a) Special children not in the above groups but who are
examined, usually at the request of the Head Teacher.
(b) Children seen at the Clinic, sent by Parents, Head
Teachers or the School Nurses.
(c) Re-inspections of children previously found with a defect
of some kind.
There were 153 entrants examined at the Routine Inspections
and 112 parents or guardians attended.
272 children of the intermediate age were inspected and 298
leavers, i.e., children aged 12 years.
There were 61 other Routine Inspections made during the
year, so that the total number of children examined was 784 as
compared with 858 in 1938.
It was not possible to complete all the Routine Medical
Inspections which were due in 1939.
Other inspections include children seen as "specials." These
are generally children brought forward by the Head Teachers, or
they may be seen by one of the School Nurses and deemed suitable
cases for a special examination. 32 of these cases were examined
during the year. Included in the Special Inspections in Table I. are
the cases seen at the Inspection and Minor Ailment Clinic, so that
there is a total of 476 special inspections.
From the table on page 12 it will be seen that re-inspections
totalled 520.
While visiting Schools for Routine Inspections, re-inspections