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The total number of parents or guardians present at the
Elementary School Examinations (Routine and Special) was as
follows :—
6,891 for Boys, 6,862 for Girls, making a combined
percentage attendance of 71.1.
(14) Co-operation of Teachers.
The continued co-operation of the Head Teachers is a great
factor in the School Medical Service. The teachers help in several
ways. They prepare the lists for examination and select
"specials" to be examined. They urge the attendance of parents,
and render many services in connection with the Nurses' visits in
the process of following-up. They also draft special cases to the
Clinics for minor ailments, and interview many parents on the
subject.
Their scope in treatment is of course limited to seeing that
a child attends regularly the examination and Clinic, and urging
parents to persist in treatment, or otherwise obtain treatment
where advised.
They also put into action those special recommendations
of the Doctor after his visit of routine examination.
In many matters connected with the School Medical
Service valuable co-operation has been given by the Committee's
Inspectors, Mr. E. W. Hodges and Miss C. M. Bott.
The following list gives defects or recommendations
notified to Head Teachers, which have a bearing on the
educational career of the child :—
Vision, 1,608 Deformities, 12
Physical Exercises, 58 Teeth, 2
Defective Hearing, 73 Mental Condition, 3
Breathing Exercises, 2 Nervous System, 8
Heart (Physical Skin Disease,
Overstrain), 132 (Verminous, etc.), 6
Speech, 2 Other Defects, etc., 33
(15) Co-operation of School Attendance Officers.
There is a complete co-ordination between the School Medical
Service and the School Attendance Bye-Laws Department, supervised
by Mr. G. F. Crane.
The cases concerned involve school attendance, cleanliness,
unfitness for school or for employment, and out of school cases.
The School Attendance Officer makes a daily return of all
children out of school on medical grounds, and cases of infectious
disease are visited by Lady Sanitary Inspectors.
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