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MEDICAL INSPECTIONS,
42. These may be considered in the following groups :-
Inspections of British Schools.-These are undertaken by officers of the Medical Department with the assistance of the Medical Officer of Health. The Kowloon Schools, Senior and Junior, and the Victoria School were each inspected once during the year. The report on the Kowloon School states, "I was very much struck by the good physical condition and appearance of the children in the Senior School: they in my opinion compare quite favourably with the school children of the Pacific Coast of America of whom I saw a good deal whilst on leave. The smaller children in the Junior School seem to have a tendency to anaemia but seem to outgrow it as they get older. At the Victoria School, with the exception of trifling ailments, the health of the children was excellent". No inspection of the Peak School was made.
Inspection of the principal Government schools for Chinese and Indians.-These schools are examined by Government doctors as above, but mainly for defects in eye-sight. Serious cases are referred to private practitioners, and spectacles supplied where necessary, the cost being defrayed from a fund supplied by entrance fees. 919 pupils in 5 schools were examined, and 193 pairs of spectacles were supplied to them. The examination at the following schools was not undertaken :-Saiyingpun, Yaumati, and the Belilios School.
Grant Schools.--The principal Grant Schools were examined by their own medical officers. The reports have in all cases been satisfactory.
BUILDINGS.
43. Progress was made with the new buildings for Queen's College and Saiyingpun School.
44. The new school at Gap Road is dealt with in paragraph 12 above.
45. The following Building Grants were paid
To the French Convent School, $10,000 Holy Trinity College, Canton, 15,000 St. Joseph's College, 20,000 St. Stephen's Girls' School, 20,000 65,000O 9
MEDICAL INSPECTIONS,
42. These may be considered in the following groups :-
Inspections of British Schools.-These are undertaken by officers of the Medical Department with the assistance of the Medical Officer of Health. The Kowloon Schools, Senior and Junior, and the Victoria School were each inspected once during the year. The report on the Kowloon School states, "I was very much struck by the good physical condition and appearance of the children in the Senior School: they in my opinion compare quite favourably with the school children of the Pacific Coast of America of whom I saw a good deal whilst on leave. The smaller childreu in the Junior School seem to have a tendency to anaemia but seem to outgrow it as they get older. At the Victoria School, with the exception of trifling ailments, the health of the children was
'excellent". No inspection of the Peak School was made.
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Inspection of the principal Government schools for Chinese and Indians.-These schools are examined by Government doctors as above, but mainly for defects in eye-sight. Serious cases are referred to private practitioners, and spectacles supplied where necessary, the cost being defrayed from a fund supplied by entrance fees. 919 pupils in 5 schools were examined, and 193 pairs of spectacles were supplied to them. The examination at the following schools was not undertaken :-Saiyingpun, Yaumati, and the Belilios School.
Grant Schools.--The principal Grant Schools were examined by their own medical officers. The reports have in all cases been satisfactory.
BUILDINGS.
43. Progress was made with the new buildings for Queen's College and Saiyingpun School.
44. The new school at Gap Road is dealt with in paragraph 12 above.
45. The following Building Grants were paid
To the French Convent School,.
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Holy Trinity College, Canton,
St. Joseph's College,.....
St. Stephen's Girls' School,
$10,000
15,000
20,000
20,000
65,000
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