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MISCELLANEOUS
Children are also examined for the following reasons.
(a) Children boarded out in foster homes or in the Children's Homes
Medical examinations (in accordance with the Home Office regulations) are carried out
for the Children's Committee by medical officers of the Health Department, Each of the
Children's Homes and Residential Nurseries is allocated to a medical officer who undertakes
the regular examinations and the occasional special visits required. In addition, the
medical officers examined 37 children referred to the school clinics prior to their being
taken into care or for annual medical examination while in foster homes.
(b) Certain children brought before the Juvenile Court were submitted by the Children's
Officer for medical examination and report on their physical condition.
(c) Children who are going on school journeys
Three hundred and eleven were examined and all were found fit.
(d) Children's Country Holiday Fund
Fifty-nine were examined by medical officers and nurses.
(e) Children going to Holiday Camps
Twenty-nine were examined.
(f) Children examined for "Freedom from Infection"
Five-hundred-and-nine children were examined shortly before their departure on school
Journeys or holidays.
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