# Chapter VIII.
## HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
85. Dr. G. M. Hargreaves, Medical Officer, Dr. Au King and Dr. Wong Hok Nin, Chinese Medical Officers, were on duty throughout the year. Dr. (Mrs.) Fehily replaced Dr. (Mrs.) Dovey as Lady Medical Officer on the latter's departure on leave in February. The Sanitary Inspector seconded to the Medical Officer last year returned to duty with his own department in April.
86. Medical Inspection of school children: 6,538 examinations (including re-examinations) were carried out at 17 Government schools and 1 private school.
87. Defects in need of treatment (excluding dental disease and corrected visual defects) amounted to 20% among scholars examined for the first time.
88. Treatment of Government school children is undertaken at three general and two special clinics. Attendances were as follows.
Ellis Kadoorie general clinic 973 Violet Peel Health Centre 565 Yaumati general clinic 1,288 Special clinic for visual disorders 335 Special clinic for ear, nose & throat 689 3,80089. In certain circumstances, that is to say where tonsillectomy (or the removal of adenoids) is performed at Government Hospitals, on the advice of the Medical Officer, on pupils of the provided schools which are required to pay an annual medical inspection fee—hospital in-patient fees are met by the department.
90. The school nurses paid 112 visits to the homes of pupils to advise in regard to treatment.
91. Dental disease continues to form the largest group of defects. Visual disorders are next in frequency, and more than 90% of defectives suffer from myopia. The incidence of myopia among Government scholars of all ages amounted to 23% (38% at age 17), but the number who are uncorrected is small. Pulmonary tuberculosis; in a total of 1,903 examined for the first time there were 27 definite or suspected cases—an incidence of 1.9%.