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(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 those attending clinics other
than the Minor Ailment Clinics, or school classes in which there
have been cases of certain infectious diseases.
1,520 Special Inspections were made during the year.
(c) Re- Inspections, 2,603 in number. Details will be found
under heading " Following Up."
5.—FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.
The number of individual children found at Routine
Inspections to require treatment (excluding uneleanliness and
Dental Diseases) were Entrants 95, Second Age Group 99, Third
Age Group 60 and Others 57 ; Total—311.
This table has now been altered so as to indicate the number
of these children who were referred for defective vision.
(a) Nutrition.—Table lib indicates the condition regarding
nutrition of the children examined at Routine Inspections. It
shows that those classified as " Bad " numbered 0.8% Entrants,
0.7% Second Age Group, 0.8% Third Age Group and 0.6%
Others, or 0.7% of all groups ; 54.1% were found to be excellent,
33.3% normal and 11.8% 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) Uneleanliness.—Five cases were seen at Routine
Inspections and six 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 238 visits to the
schools for personal hygiene inspections, an average of 10 visits