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this privilege is extended to all pupils whereas only new pupils pay fees, it was anticipated that for the first year or two the fund would show a deficit, but owing to the percentage of defective eyesight being less than that anticipated, there was a credit balance at the end of the year.
30. The method in force is that the pupils' eyesight (and incidentally teeth and general health) is examined by a Government doctor in the case of the Belilios Public School Dr. Alice Hickling, M.B.E. kindly officiated. All suspect cases are sent with a form to Dr. Harston. If spectacles are not required, the form is returned to the Headmaster for the information of the inspecting Doctor on his next visit. Otherwise the pupil is passed with his prescription and form to the optician, who sends the form to this office with his bill, and it then goes to the Head Master to note. Under this system a record will easily be kept of each pupil's eyesight as he passes from Class to Class or School to School.
31. The figures up to the end of the year are:--
School No. of pupils examined No. supplied with glasses Percentage Queen's College 455 52 11 Ellis Kadoorie 491 71 14 Yaumati 281 58 21 Belilios 1,247 181 14.532. There are thus great differences in the percentage needing glasses at the different schools, of which I am not prepared at present to attempt an explanation.
THE UNIVERSITY,
33. My time was mainly occupied during two months in the spring with the University Commission, of which I was a member.
34. In the autumn term Mr. Forster, a master in the Department, was seconded to the University as Professor of Education. While in the existing shortage of Staff he could ill be spared, the necessity of filling the appointment was considered paramount in the interests of our schools and Students in Training, no less than those of the University. At the end of the year Mr. Morris, Headmaster of Saiyingpun School, was appointed Master of Method at the University, in addition to his own duties. Here again it is very advantageous to the Department that the teaching of Government students should be conducted on the lines which they will be expected to follow, when they take up their work as teachers in the Department.
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this privilege is extended to all pupils whereas only new pupils pay fees, it was anticipated that for the first year or two the fand would shew a deficit, but owing to the percentage of defective eyesight being less than that anticipated, there was a credit balance at the end of the year.
30. The method in force is that the pupils' eyesight. (and incidentally teeth and general health) is examined by a Government doctor in the case of the Belilios Public School Dr. Alice Hickling, M.B.E. kindly officiated. All suspect cases are sent with a form to Dr. Harston. If spectacles are not required, the form is returned to the Headmaster for the information of the inspecting Doctor on his next visit. Otherwise the pupil is passed with his prescription and form to the optician, who sends the form to this office with his bill, and it then goes to the Head Master to note. Under this system a record will easily be kept of each pupil's eyesight as he passes from Class to Class or School to School.
31. The figures up to the end of the year are:--
Schoo!
No. of pupils examined
No. supplied with glasses
Percentage
Queen's College
455
52
11.
Ellis Kadoorie....
491
71
14
Yaumati
281
58
!
21
Belilios
20
1,247
181
14.5
32. There are thus great differences in the percentage needing glasses at the different schools, of which I am not prepared at present to attempt an explanation.
THE UNIVERSITY,
33. My time was mainly occupied during two mouths in the spring with the University Commission, of which I was a member.
34. In the autumn term Mr. Forster, a master in the Depart- ment, was seconded to the University as Professor of Education. While in the existing shortage of Staff he could ill be spared, the necessity of filling the appointment was considered paramount in the interests of our schools and Students in Training, no less than those of the University. At the end of the year Mr. Morris. Headmaster of Saiyingpun School, was appointed Master of Method at the University, in addition to his own duties. Here again it is very advantageous to the Department that the teaching of Government students should be conducted on the lines which they will be expected to follow, when they take up their work as teachers in the Department.
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