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Three visits are made during the year, and re-inspections
are made of examinees from each previous medical inspection.
The examinations are fuller in detail than those carried out in the
elementary schools, colour vision, chest measurements, and other
enquiries incidental to the age period being noted. Arrangements
have been made for the girl students to be examined by a lady
doctor.
The procedure of following-up by nurses' visits and by reinspection
by the assistant school medical officers is the same as
in the elementary schools. The school clinic and hospital arrangements
for the treatment of tonsils and adenoids, defective vision,
and ringworm of the scalp by X-ray treatment are available if
required.
(b) Secondary schools. The children who are about to
enter these schools are examined specially before the schools open.
All the scholars in the secondary schools also have an annual
medical examination, in addition to which the assistant school
medical officers make one visit a year for the purpose of reinspecting
those pupils who were found to have defects at a
previous examination. The girl students in these schools are
examined by a lady doctor. The procedure of following-up by
nurses' visits is the same as in the elementary schools.
Every facility provided by the Authority for the treatment
of children is available for these pupils. Many of the pupils, however,
have their defects remedied privately. Treatment is obtainable
by all the scholars, i.e. scholarship holders and fee payers.
(c) High schools. On the request of the respective
Governors, the Authority provides for the medical inspection of
West Ham scholars in the West Ham High School for Girls, and
in St. Angela's High School, with the exception of the preparatory
departments of those schools. These schools are visited each year
by a lady doctor, and the same medical services are available for
the scholars as for those children attending elementary schools.
(d) Continuation institutes. There is now only one continuation
school in the borough, viz., the Lister Institute. Routine
medical inspection of the pupils attending this continuation school
is now undertaken by the Authority. Arrangements have been
made for the examination of the girl students by a lady doctor.
(e) Central schools. There are two central schools—The
Grove School, Forest Gate, and The Russell School, Plaistow.