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•course excluded from school. During the year 27
cases of Tuberculosis of all kinds were notified among
children of school age. All have been visited and in
some cases where advisable the children have been
sent away to Homes or Sanatoria.
Of the 27 cases mentioned twelve were cases of
of Tuberculosis of Lungs.
Infectious and Contagious Diseases.
Not many of these diseases were seen at the routine
inspections, probably because during the year I have
seen a large number of children at the office. The
teachers have been asked to send any doubtful cases
to me, so that they may be excluded if necessary.
During the year 227 certificates have been given for
exclusion from, and re-admission to school. This
system of seeing children at the office is practically
what may be termed an Inspection Clinic. The Board
of Education recommend that this system should be
adopted, and it is certainly very useful, ft is most
desirable that children who have been absent from
school for any period, suffering, or supposed to be
suffering from an infectious or contagious disease
should be examined in order that they may be certified
free from infection.
The clinic should still further be extended to include
the examination of children who are absent from
school for say a week without a doctor's certificate.
In many cases illness might be discovered which was
not being attended to properly, and which might be
infecting others in the same house or neighbourhood.