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1 he cards are subsequently returned to the schools and kept
in special filing cases supplied to each department.
The disturbance of school routine is minimised by using
teachers' rooms in the majority of cases for the inspections, and
by having the children from their class in small batches of six at
a time.
The arrangements for accommodating the Officers concerned
in the work are adequate in the majority of the schools in the
Borough.
PARENTS PRESENT AT MEDICAL INSPECTION.
During the year 1913, the percentage of parents present at the
inspections was 34.9, as compared with 27.5 in 1912.
The number of parents sufficiently interested to be present at
the Medical Examination varies considerably in different schools,
and sometimes in the several departments of a particular school.
Where the Head Teacher manifests active sympathy in the
work of School Medical Inspection the percentage of parents who
attend is high; where, on the contrary, Medical Inspection is
regarded merely as a necessary evil, parents are not urged to be
present, and, parallel with this lack of sympathy, one finds the
number of objections to inspection is increased.
EXTENT AND SCOPE OF MEDICAL INSPECTION DURING 1913.
Inspection has taken place in all the Borough Schools.
Certain departments were re-visited in order to secure the examination
of children who, through absence, had escaped Medical
Inspection at former visits.
The grouping of children for inspection was the same as last
year, namely:—
(1) Entrants.
(2) Leavers.
(3) Special Cases.
Under "Special Cases" were included children who, owing
to their ages did not come within the scope of routine inspection,
were believed to exhibit defects; such cases were usually put
forward by their teachers.