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MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
The inspection of School children is under the charge of
the School Medical Officer, Dr. Mabel Russell, who acts in
conjunction with the M.O.H. In all action, apart from the
actual inspection, involving any alteration of procedure, the
S.M.O. and the M.O.H. confer together. If there is any undue
prevalence of infectious disease in the Schools, the Officers
meet, and, if necessary, make individual examination of all
the children, and, if it is decided, to advise the closure of a
School, the decision is by mutual agreement.
In the recent prevalence of Diphtheria the S.M.O. took
Swabs from the throats of any children considered suspicious,
and communicated the result to the M.O.H.
If, during medical inspection, or subsequently, the facts
pointed to an insanitary condition of the home, the Public
Health Department was notified.
The S.M.O. is responsible for supervision within the
Schools; the sanitary arrangements, the condition of the lavatories
and W.C.'s, etc., are under the supervision of the
M.O.H.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Twenty-eight cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis were notified,
four being under the voluntary system, which is now
superseded by the last Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
put in force. Five others were notified from Poor Law
Institutions, and nineteen under the Public Health (Tuberculosis
in Hospitals) Regulations. Of the above twenty-eight,