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

  • Leslie Mackenzie
Date:
1906
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Credit: The health of the school child / by W. Leslie Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In specially pressing cases, the teachers are authorised to propose to the Inspectorate special examinations of individual children in their classes. These examinations may be undertaken during the consultation hour of the School Doctor attached to that school. If, notwithstanding the presence of a medical certificate, a request for medical examination of a child is made, this can be undertaken through the Inspectorate only with the sanction of the Magistracy. The certificate of the examination by the School Doctor is to be preserved with the schedule of the particular child ; in the town trade schools it is pre- served with the rector’s records. 11. On the occurrence of measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and typhoid fever in the municipal and private schools, as well as in the infant schools and kindergarten, a report must be made to the School Doctor by the teacher or the head of the institution, and more especially when only one case of a par- ticular illness has occurred. On receiving such a report, the School Doctor must forthwith proceed to make a thorough examination of all the children present in the particular class or institution, and as soon as possible report the result direct to the Imperial District Medical Officer. On receiving this report, the latter will give the necessary instructions to the district police authority—for example, the temporary closing of particular classes. In these investigations the School Doctor is entitled to send home from school such children as he finds to be suffer- ing from infectious disease or suspicious symptoms.