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4.—MEDICAL INSPECTION.
As required by the Board of Education, the following
inspections were made during the year:—
(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 Leavers. There is also a fourth group of
children of other ages who have not been examined in one of
the above groups.
679 Entrants, 662 Intermediates and 751 Leavers and
134 Others (2,226 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.
1,891 special inspections were made during the year.
(c) Re-inspections: 2,885 in number. Details will be found
under heading " Following Up."
5.—FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.
(a) Uncleanliness.—40 cases were seen at Routine Inspections,
and 12 at Special Inspections.
None of the Routine cases were severe, as such children
are detected by the School Nurses at Personal Hygiene
Inspections and excluded from school. Those cases seen at
Special Inspections were all of a serious degree and those with
whom the Nurses had had difficulty. They were all dealt with
satisfactorily without the necessity of taking legal proceedings.
During the year the Nurses made 314 visits to the schools
for personal hygiene inspections, an average of 16 visits per
school. They made 36,976 examinations, viz., 34,170 inspections
and 2,806 re-inspections. Defects were found in 1,919
instances and the number of individual children found to be
unclean was 399 as against 433 and 504 in 1933 and 1932
respectively.