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4.—MEDICAI, INSPECTION.
As required by the Board of Education, the following
inspections were made :—
(a) Routine Inspections of the three code groups, Entrants,
Intermediates (viz., those of about 8 years of age who have
just been, or about to be, transferred from the infants to a
higher school) and heavers. There is also a fourth group of
children of other ages who have not been examined in one of
the above groups.
074 Entrants, 759 Intermediates and 861 Leavers and
51 Others (2,345 in all) were examined during the year.
('b) Special Inspections : These are special inspections made
by the School Medical Officer of children suffering from some
special disease or disability, and are generally seen at the Minor
Ailment Clinic. The figure below does not include the inspections
of special groups of cases, such as cripples or children
suffering from mental deficiency, or school classes in which there
have been cases of certain infectious diseases.
1,954 special inspections were made during the year.
5.—FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.
(a) Uncleanliness.—74 cases were seen at Routine Inspections,
and 5 at Special Inspections.
The Routine cases were all mild, and in no case was it
found to be necessary to exclude the child from school, but the
5 special cases which had been referred from the Nurses'
Hygiene Inspections were more serious, and all had to be
excluded from School.
During the year the School Nurses made 287 visits to the
Schools, equal to an average of 17 visits per School. They
made 37,501 examinations for personal hygiene and found
1,923 defects. The number of individual children found to be
unclean during the year was 433, as against 504 during the
previous year.
The progress made in this part of the work is shown in
the following table:—