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suffering from mental deficiency or school classes in which there
have been cases of certain infectious diseases.
1,366 special inspections were made during the year.
(c) Re-inspections.—2,449 in number. Details will be found
under heading " Following Up."
5.—FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.
Table Ic shows the number of individual children found at
Routine Inspections to require treatment (excluding uncleanliness
and Dental Diseases), viz., Entrants 140, Second Age
Group 128, Third Age Group 101, and Others 21 ; total 390.
(a) Nutrition. A new table, viz., Table IIb, is this year
required by the Board of Education. It indicates the condition
regarding nutrition of the children examined at Routine
Inspections. The results are not too unsatisfactory for of those
classified as " Bad " there were 3.7 per cent. of Entrants, 2.8 per
cent. of Second Age Group, 2.6 per cent. of Third Age Group and
2.0 per cent. of Others—or 2.9 per cent. of all groups. 32.2 per
cent. were found to be excellent, 46.9 per cent. normal, and
18 per cent.slightly subnormal.
In addition there were children referred for Special
Inspection by the Nurses or Head Teachers with the view to
providing them with free milk.
(b) Uncleanliness.—Twenty-one cases were seen at Routine
Inspections and two 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 had been referred
to the Clinic by the Nurses. They were all dealt with
satisfactorily without the necessity of taking legal proceedings.
During the year the Nurses made 286 visits to the schools
for personal hygiene inspections, an average of 15 visits per
school. They made 38,469 examinations, viz., 34,861 inspections
and 3,608 re-inspections. Defects were found in 1,966
instances, and the number of individual children found to be
unclean was 372, as against 399 and 433 in 1934 and 1933
respectively.