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of pupil.
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(2) Spitting in probibited on school premises.
52. (1) A medical officer of schools or school nurse shall be permitted to examine the person and clothing of any pupil upon the school premises.
(2) If on such examination a medical officer of schools is of the opinion that the person or clothing of any pupil is infected with vermin or is in a fool or ilthy condition, he may require the Supervisor to exclude auch pupil from the school forthwith until such time as the person and clothing of the pupil have been cleansed to the satisfaction of a medical officer of schoolň.
53. (1) If a medical officer of schools certifies that any teacher, pupil, or employee should be excluded from school by reason of spitering or having recently suffered from any infections disease or by reason of having been in contact with or living in the same house as a person suffering from an infectious disease, the Supervisor shall, if so required in writing by the medical officer in charge of the school health services, cause such teacher, pupll, or employee to be excluded from school for such period Bar shall seen necessary,
(2) The principal shall immediately report to a medical offleer of schools any suspectél or known case of infectious disease amongst teachers, pupils or employees of a school, or when he auspects or knows that any such person has been in contact with a case of infectious disease.
(3) If it is considered necessary to safeguard the teachers, pupils or employees of a school from the contraction of any infectious disease, either because there has been reported or found a case of infectious disease amongst the teachers, pupils or employees of that school or for any other reason, the Director may on the advice of a medical officer of schools order the closure of that school for such period as he may consider necessary for the purpose afpressid.
54. (1) The Director may require any person employed in a school as well as any teacher to submit to medical examination.
(2) The Director shall have power to require every teacher to submit to an X-Ray examination by a government radiologist once every year and may issue directions to teachers accordingly.
(3) The Director may require any pupil to submit to a medical examination.
55. (1) There shall be provided in every school at least one first aid bost.
(2) At least two teachers in every school shall be trained in administer- ing first aid.
(3) First aid boxes must be fitted outside and adjacent to all science laboratories and school workshops. All science teachers, workshop in. structors and their assistants must be familiar with the contents and their use.
(4) First aid boxes shall be maintained fully equipped at all times. (5) The Director may require the provision of a suitable room for medical inspection and first aid in any school which has more than 100 papils,
56. (1) In every board school a superficial durmitory area of at least 40 square feet shall be provided for each boarder and the ceiling of overy dormitory shall be at least 10 feet above the floor.
(2) Every boarding school shall have a suitable room set aside for sole use as a sanatorium or sick room.
(3) Ne dormitory shall be in a tenement-house.
(4) In every boarding school-
(a) the dormitory accommodation;
(5) the washing and bathing arrangements;
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(d) the latrine accommodation and sanitary arrangements; and (e) the shes provided for open air recreation, shall be of adequate standard and properly maintained to the satisfaction of the Director,
(5) The latrine accommodation of every boarding school shall consist of water clogeta or of water closets and urinals connected to a flush system. (6) The Supervisor of every boarding school shall, if so required by the Director in writing, appoint a matron to be in charge of the boarders.
57. (1) The Supervisor of every boarding school shall ensure that Mediad every boarder is medically examined at least once in every 6 months. amination
In ord (2) The examination shall be conducted by a government medical offer schaal. or by a registered medics) practitioner, who shall report in writing to the Supervisor on the general health of the boarders." The report shali also give the names of any of the boarder whose alate of health is such as to demand special treatment and shall briefly state the nature of the treatment required.
(3) A copy of such report shall be transmitted forthwith by the Supervisor to the Director,
PART VIL
Discipline.
58. (1) Corporal punishment of girls is forbidden.
(2) Corporal punishment of boya shall be administered with a light cane on the palms of the hands or on the buttocks over the clothing. No other form of corporal punishment skall be administered.
(3) Where there is more than one teacher corporal punishment shall ba inflicted by the principal only, or under his express authority.
PART VITI.
Feen and Collections.
Corporal pankbank.
59. (1) The Supervisor of every schaul shall submit to the Director Fee wod when required by him particulars of the inclusive fee.
collectlona.
(2) Upon receipt of such particulars the Director shall cause the name
of the Supervisor, the name and address of the school, and the particulars
of the inclusive fee to be published in the Gazette.
60. No supervisor, manager or teacher shall charge or accept payment Fees uther of any money or any school fees whatsoever other than the inclusive fees as than Incontr
fee prohibited. published in the Gazette: Provided that additional fees for entrance examinations and registration may be charged if previously approved by the Director in writing and if such approval is displayed upon the school notice board or at some other public place at the school.
61. Unless otherwise permitted in writing by the Director, the inclusive Method of fee shall be collected either-
(a) in 12 equal monthly payments to be made at the beginning of
each of the months" September to August inclusive; or
(b) in 10 equal instalments payable on or after the first school day
of each of the months September to June inclusive:
Provided that supervisors may if they wish require pupils to register for the new school year by paying their September instalment not earlier than the 1st August.
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