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URBAN DISTRICT OF CHISWICK.
Education (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907.
Report on the Medical Inspection of Elementary
School Children for Year Ended Dec. 31st, 1913.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Education Committee.
Mrs. Corrie Grant and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my first annual
report on the medical inspection of school children.
It may be well at the outset to summarise briefly the
requirements of the Board of Education and the
changes that have occurred, or are to occur in the near
future.
The Education (Administrative Provisions) Act,
1907, in so far as it concerns the medical inspection of
school children, was the outcome of evidence which
showed that there was a great deal of physical unfitness
in certain classes of the population, which might
be ameliorated or prevented.
Local authorities therefore were obliged to provide
for the medical inspection of elementary school
children at certain times during their school life, and
they were also given the power to attend to the
health and physical condition of these children.
This came into force in January, 1908, and at first
it was intended that examinations should be made