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The superintendence of work intended to remedy sanitary
defects in other houses has absorbed a considerable amount
of the Inspector's time; and in this connection it may be
noted that the clerical assistance recently provided by the
Council has been a boon to the Department.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Home-workers'
premises have been inspected during the year. The
number of inspections made and sanitary defects found to
exist are shown in Table 6.
MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
The County Medical Officer of Health reports as follows:
Owing to alteration in the age groups required to be individually
examined by the Board of Education and to changes in
staff, it has only been possible to make two routine inspections
of each school during 1914.
Nine hundred and four children were examined.
Age Group. Boys. Girls.
Entrants 4 and 5 years 140 128
Intermediate Group, 8 years 63 52
Leavers 12 years and over 259 230
*Other Ages 17 15
479 425
*Children presented for some special reason for medical
inspection, and not coming within the groups required for
routine inspection.
All the schools were visited twice during the year.
In addition to these many other visits were again made
in order:—
1. To "follow up" those children who were advised to
seek treatment for some defective condition found at the time
of inspection.
2. To make more detailed examination of "special
children" (these include children in whom the suspicion of
pulmonary tuberculosis, mental deficiency, or other grave
organic defect has arisen at the time of routine inspection).