View report page

79
examination, and, with one or two exceptions, realise the
importance of Medical Inspection and are entirely sympathetic
with the work.
The co-operation of the teachers is invaluable. It has been
difficult in the past to arrange to visit the school at the most convenient
time suitable to the Head Teacher, but to remedy this a
circular has been sent round to each school asking the most
convenient month of the year for the attendance of the School
Medical Inspectors.
EXTENT AND SCOPE OF MEDICAL INSPECTION DURING 1914.
Inspection has taken place in all the Borough Schools.
Certain departments have been re-visited in order to secure the
examination of children who, through absence, escaped Medical
Inspection at former visits.
The grouping of children for inspection was as follows:—
(1) Entrants.
(2) Aged 12 to 13 years.
(3) Leavers, 13 years and over.
(4) Special cases.
Special cases included children who were outside the scope of
routine inspection but were usually put forward by teacher or at
the request of parents when thought to be defective in some
respect.
The scope of the work also embraced the re-examination of all
defective cases found at Medical Inspection in whom the defects
were of such a nature as to deem it advisable that parents should
be notified thereof; the "following up" of the same; the inspection
for general cleanliness of all children attending the elementary
schools of the Borough; the cleansing of children under the
statutory powers conferred by the Children Act; and the work
accomplished at the Inspection and Treatment Clinics.
The following table shows the number of children examined
during 1914, classified according to age and sex:—