[Report 1933] / School Health Service, Leicestershire County.

  • Leicestershire (England). County Council. School Health Service.
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / School Health Service, Leicestershire County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IV.—MEDICAL INSPECTION. The schedule of Medical Inspection has been completed on the lines laid down by the Board of Education. Routine Medical Inspection and the examination of “special” children presented by the Head Teachers is carried out on the school premises. Each school in the county has been visited by the Medical Officers of the Department at least once during the year and the major portion of the time of the Medical Officers has been taken up with this work. As was the case last year a certain amount of each Medical Officer’s time has been allotted to the examination of physically and mentally defective children. In order to keep the registers of these children up to date, periodic re-inspections are essential and in many cases this involves visits being paid to the homes of the children. In rural districts such home visiting occupies a great deal of time which must be allowed for in making arrangements for the completion of routine inspections in the schools. The total number of children examined on routine inspection during the year was :— Elementary Schools, 14,202 as compared with 12,200 last year. Secondary Schools, 1,693 as compared with 1,925 last year. (Statistical particulars will be found in Table I. at the end of the report.) No particular difficulty has been experienced during the year in the work of medical inspection and undue dislocation of school routine has been avoided in so far as possible. Each child when inspected is withdrawn from school for about half-an-hour and when re-inspected for not more than a few minutes. Small rural schools present a less easy problem than modern schools in populous areas, which are equipped with a medical inspection room ; but allowing for all the circumstances of limited accommodation and concurrent teaching it can be said that the work has proceeded with remarkable smoothness. V.—FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION. (a) Uncleanliness. During the year 200 cases of uncleanliness were discovered at Routine and special inspections. In addition to these cases referred to the School Nurses by the Assistant School Medical Officers the
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