Annexe A.
REPORT BY THE INSPECTOR OF ENGLISH SCHOOLS,
1922.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.
(Table I.)
Queen's College. The Maximum Enrolment was 799 (887 in 1921).
The Average Attendance was 645 (542 in 1921).
The following extracts from the Head Master's Report are of interest :-
Staff-The year was a very fortunate one for the school in that it witnessed an unusually small number of changes in the staff.
Discipline. The discipline of the school has been, as usual, well maintained. Notwithstanding the great reduction in the average age of our boys and the large numbers in most of our classes, an astonishingly small amount of effort is required to keep them under control and hard at work,
Health of School. The health of the school was, on the whole, better than usual. Dr. Esler examined all new boys enrolled during the year, and those recommended by him for treatment received attention from Dr. Morrison; of these latter, 64 were supplied with spectacles. To the medical staff of the Alice Memorial Hospital, just below us in Aberdeen Street, I wish to express our gratitude for their prompt attention to casualties and for their kindness in reporting upon boys suffering from slight ailments who are often sent to them.
Studies. In the Matriculation examinations we did not as in former years secure any distinctions in Chinese. In looking through the list of results issued by the University I notice that not a single distinction in Chinese was gained by a Hongkong student taking the November examinations. It will be interesting to discover if this is the result of an all-round falling off in the quality of the work or of the adoption by the University examiners of more drastic methods of dealing with marks.
The course in Chemistry is being extended this year to include classes 1, 2, and 3, and with our two well-equipped laboratories, one for Physics and the other for Chemistry, we hope to give an increasingly good account of ourselves in these branches of science.