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(b) Special Inspections.—These are special inspections made
by the School Medical Officers of children suffering from some
special disease or disability and are generally seen at the Minor
Ailment Clinics. 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.
1,491 Special Inspections were made during the year.
(c) Re- Inspections, 2,126 in number. Details will be found
under the heading "Following Up."
5.—FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.
The number of individual children found at Routine
Inspections to require treatment (excluding uncleanliness and
Dental Diseases) were Entrants 82, Second Age Group 110,
Third Age Group 83, and Others 47. Total 322.
Of these numbers the following were referred for vision
only: Entrants 7, Second Age Group 27, Third Age Group 39,
and Others 36. Total 109.
(a) Nutrition.—In A.M. 124, December 1934, the Board of
Education asked for an additional return to be included in the
Statistical Tables showing the nutritional condition of children
found at Routine Inspections in the Elementary Schools.
The children were to be divided into four groups: A
(Excellent), B (Normal), C (Slightly Subnormal), and D (Bad).
In December the Chief Medical Officer wrote stating his
concern at the number of children classified in Group C and
asked for an investigation and report on the matter.

On investigation it would appear that there is a great
possibility that different standards are used in different districts,
also there is no sharp line of demarkation between the groups
and border line cases (of which there are many) are certain to
be classified sometimes in one group and sometimes in the other.