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194. Children enter the Primary Vernacular Schools at 7 years of age and remain there for five years. The normal age for entering the secondary school is 12. The pupils who join the 8th or lowest class can rise one class each year until at 20 they are in the 1st class.
195. With the limited staff provided for the purpose, it was not possible to deal with more than a small proportion of the total school hygiene work calling for attention.
In England and Wales scholars are inspected three times in the course of their school life, namely, at five, eight and twelve years of age. Here it is not possible to do anything like this.
196. So far attention has been concentrated on the secondary schools and primary English Schools. With regard to routine examinations it has only been possible to deal with "entrants" and with specials.
197. The Primary Vernacular Schools with their 53,000 scholars have not been touched and it is in connection with such that the need for health measures is most urgent.
By the time the scholars come under the eye of the Medical Officer when entering the secondary school their physical abnormalities, which might have been rectified if seen and treated sufficiently early, have become established as definite health defects.
198. In Hong Kong as elsewhere the School Medical Officers found their work greatly handicapped by the absence of school clinics where those who could not afford the services of a private practitioner and who required treatment could receive the necessary attention. Cards to hospitals and Chinese Public Dispensaries did not meet the case. The children either did not attend or if they did attend refrained from making a second visit. The reasons for failure to take advantage of the opportunity of obtaining free advice and treatment are several. The natural disinclination of the ordinary child to go alone to a hospital or dispensary, the lack of sympathy shown by the average Hospital subordinate unless tipped, the time taken up in transport and waiting for one's turn to be seen are all factors which tend to make the practice of treatment of school children at hospitals and Chinese Public Dispensaries a failure.
199. To have any chance of success the child must be treated in a clinic, conveniently situated, by the doctor and the nurses whom he knows and in whom he has confidence.
200. Under the scheme for reorganisation of the Medical and Sanitary Services recommendations have been made for the provision of school clinics in district health centres. Pending the establishment of these, temporary clinics have been instituted in the Ellis Kadoorie School in Victoria and the Yaumati School in Kowloon. In February, 1933, a third clinic was opened at the Junior Technical School.
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194. Children enter the Primary Vernacular Schools at 7 years of age and remain there for five years. The normal age for entering the secondary school is 12. The pupils who join the 8th or lowest class can rise one class each year until at 20 they are in the 1st class.
195. With the limited staff provided for the purpose, it was not possible to deal with more than a small proportion of the total school hygiene work calling for attention.
In England and Wales scholars are inspected three times in the course of their school life, namely, at five, eight and twelve years of age. Here it is not possible to do anything like
this.
196. So far attention has been concentrated on the secondary schools and primary English Schools. With regard to routine examinations it has only been possible to deal with "entrants " and with specials.
197. The Primary Vernacular Schools with their 53,000 scholars have not been touched and it is in connection with such that the need for health measures is most urgent.
By the time the scholars come under the eye of the Medical Officer when entering the secondary school their physical abnormalities, which might have been rectified if seen and treated sufficiently early, have become established as definite health defects.
198. In Hong Kong as elsewhere the School Medical Officers found their work greatly handicapped by the absence of school clinics where those who could not afford the services of a private practitioner and who required treatment could receive the necessary attention. Cards to hospitals and Chinese Public Dispensaries did not meet the case. The children either
did not attend or if they did attend refrained from making a second visit. The reasons for failure to take advantage of the opportunity of obtaining free advice and treatment are several. The natural disinclination of the ordinary child to go alone to a hospital or dispensary, the lack of sympathy shown by the average Hospital subordinate unless tipped, the time taken up in transport and waiting for one's turn to be seen are all factors which tend to make the practice of treatment of school children at hospitals and Chinese Public Dispensaries a failure.
199. To have any chance of success the child must be treat- ed in a clinic, conveniently situated, by the doctor and the nurses whom he knows and in whom he has confidence.
200. Under the scheme for reorganisation of the Medical and Sanitary Services recommendations have been made for the provision of school clinics in district health centres. Pending the establishment of these, temporary clinics have been instituted in the Ellis Kadoorie School in Victoria and the Yaumati School in Kowloon. In February, 1933, a third clinic was opened at the Junior Technical School.
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