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intermediate ages coming from other schools for whom
there is no evidence of recent medical inspection at
other schools.
The Schedule laid down by the Board of Education
has been closely followed in every particular, and on
account of the facilities offered by the Clinic at Radnor
House, there is ample opportunity for further or more
complete examination where such is required.
In addition to the opportunities offered by the routine
inspections at the schools, parents are allowed to bring
any child (by consent of the Head Teachers) to the
Clinic at Radnor House for opinion, and full advantage
is taken of this; a large number of defects are thus
recognized at an early stage, which would certainly
not receive treatment unless the Clinic existed.
As mentioned in previous reports, there is very little
disturbance of school routine by medical inspection in
the schools where the Head Teacher has a separate
room, as this has invariably been placed at the disposal
of the School Medical Inspector. Where no such room
exists, classes have to be displaced and desks moved,
and considerable dislocation is occasioned thereby.
Findings of Medical Inspection (Tables, pp. 26, 27. 32).
Review of facts disclosed by medical inspection:—
(a) Uncleanliness.
The condition as to cleanliness of the heads of girls,
both in the infants' and senior departments, leaves a good
deal to be desired. Cut of, approximately, 1,000 girls
examined at routine inspections, 24% were found to have
evidence of vermin in the head. Of the girls in the senior
departments 27% were verminous, and in the junior and
infant departments 21%. As may be expected, varying
conditions of cleanliness were found in different schools;