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211. It was quite impossible to carry out routine inspections of schools already registered and only where circumstances arose which demanded a special visit was one made.
212. This year, following a report by Mr. Burney, one of His Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, a special effort was made to survey all the vernacular schools in the Colony, for which purpose a Sanitary Inspector was borrowed from the Sanitary Department. By the end of the year, all the schools in the Urban districts of the Island had been visited (320 in number) and a report made on each. Before the Kowloon side could be completed, the Inspector was withdrawn.
213. With regard to physical examination of pupils, attention was confined to 13 Government schools and 3 private schools. The primary vernacular schools containing 56,000 pupils were left more or less untouched, though it is here that the need for health measures is most urgent: for by the time these pupils have reached secondary school age and come under the eye of the medical officer, their physical abnormalities, which perhaps might have been rectified if seen and treated sufficiently early, have become established as definite health defects.
214. In the year under review, 4,655 medical examinations were made, of which 4,199 were routine inspections and 436 re-inspections. Abnormalities discovered at the time of routine inspection are classified into two groups, viz., defects in need of treatment and conditions placed on an observation list for further consideration.
215. The incidence of defects in need of treatment (excluding dental defects) varies with the type of school, the average being 21%. Dental disease has a very high incidence rate. The incidence rate of myopia varies from a small figure at seven years of age to 38% between sixteen and seventeen. The incidence in Government schools was 27.9%, and most cases have been provided with the necessary correction glasses.
216. Postural deformities of chest and spine are extremely common among entrants to Government schools.
217. X-rays, which were used as an aid to the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, showed 27 positive in 967 examined, or 2.7%.
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211. It was quite impossible to carry out routine inspections of schools already registered and only where circumstances arose which demanded a special visit was one made.
212. This year, following a report by Mr. Burney, one of His Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, a special effort was made to survey all the vernacular schools in the Colony for which purpose a Sanitary Inspector was borrowed from the Sanitary Depart- ment. By the end of the year all the schools in the Urban districts of the Island had been visited (320 in number) and a report made on each. Before the Kowloon side could be com- pleted the Inspector was withdrawn.
213. With regard to physical examination of pupils attention was confined to 13 Government schools and 3 private schools. The primary vernacular schools containing 56,000 pupils were left more or less untouched though it is here that the need for health measures is most urgent: for by the time these pupils have reached secondary school age and come under the eye of the medical officer their physical abnormalities, which perhaps might have been rectified if seen and treated sufficiently early, have become established as definite health defects.
214. In the year under review 4,655 medical examinations were made of which 4,199 were routine inspections and 436 re- inspections. Abnormalities discovered at the time of routine inspection are classified into two groups, viz., defects in need of treatment and conditions placed on an observation list for further consideration.
215. The incidence of defects in need of treatment (exclud- ing dental defects) varies with the type of school, the average being 21%. Dental disease has a very high incidence rate. The incidence rate of myopia varies from a small figure at seven years of age to 38% between sixteen and seventeen. The incid- ence in Government schools was 27.9% and most cases have been provided with the necessary correction glasses.
216. Postural deformities of ehest- and spine are extremely common among entrants to Government schools.
217. X-rays which were used as an aid to the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis showed 27 positive in 967 examined, or 2.7%.
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