The health of the school child / by W. Leslie Mackenzie.

  • Leslie Mackenzie
Date:
1906
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The health of the school child / by W. Leslie Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5. The health schedule is to be attached to the register and preserved with it. The health schedule of those children that on account of their unhealthy condition require repeated inspection by the School Doctor is to be marked “ Medical Supervision,” and submitted by the teacher to the School Doctor at the subsequent visits. This is to be continued until the School Doctor relieves the child from his supervision. The note referred to is then scored out. 6. At his visits to the school, the School Doctor, in addition to the children under medical supervision, must also examine those children whose examina- tion appears to him necessary or is proposed by the teacher. The results of the examination are briefly noted in the health schedule. In a given case a new schedule is to be used. 7. Where on examination a child is reported to be suffering from serious disease or defect, the parents are informed by a printed report and re- quested to put the child under medical treatment. This report is to be signed by the School Doctor and the School Inspector and sent to the parents by the latter. 8. No examination of the children is made by the School Doctor if an examination by the family physician has been recorded on the proper form and the corresponding certificate produced by the parents. 9. A detailed examination of the girls from the fourth school year onwards can be undertaken by the School Doctor only with the consent of the parents. On the other hand, the boys in the last quarter