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THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE IN
RELATION TO PUBLIC ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS.
School Hygiene.
A careful inspection of the hygienic conditions of the
Schools has been made in conjunction with the Chief
Sanitary Inspector.
All Schools have a water supply and water closet
accommodation, but as may be expected, the conditions as
to lighting, ventilation, and cloak room accommodation
are unsatisfactory in many of the Schools, especially in the
older non-provided Schools. Details of these defects are
before me, and it would be an easy matter to put forward
a long list of recommendations for alteration and improvement.
As in many cases they would involve radical
alteration and even reconstruction of various schools to
such an extent as to be an impossibility, either at the
present time or in the near future, no good purpose would
be served by referring to them in detail now, and it is
proposed, from time to time, to bring the more urgent
points to the attention of the Committee in the hope that
they may be remedied gradually. As mentioned above,
nothing but the replacement of the older buildings by new
ones designed in accordance with modern requirements will
remedy the conditions existing at several of the older
schools.
Medical Inspection (Table I., p. 25).
Description of arrangements made and methods adopted
for the medical inspection of the children:—
All children in the three usual age groups are
examined, i.e., (1) all entrants ; (2) those who have
reached the age of eight years; (3) those who have
reached the age of twelve years; and (4) those of