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(3) medical treatment with regard to (a) general diseases, (b) defects of ear, nose and throat, (c) eye defects.
(4) health instruction and propaganda.
(5) office work, i.e., correspondence, reports, statistics, etc.
219. With the limited staff available for the purpose it is only possible to deal with a small part of the total hygiene work calling for attention, and this applies equally to inspection of premises, examination of personnel, treatment of disease and general health instruction and propaganda.
220. With regard to inspection of premises 848 visits were paid to buildings in which it was proposed to establish vernacular schools and concerning which application had been made to the Education Authority for registration. It not infrequently happens that several visits have to be paid to one building to ensure that the conditions demanded as a precedent to registration have been carried out.
221. 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.
222. During the year a sanitary survey of 320 private schools in the Victoria urban area was carried out by a Sanitary Inspector specially lent for the purpose by the Sanitary Department. The data collected formed the material for a special report which was submitted to Government. The inspector was recalled to the Sanitary Department on the 1st of April, 1936.
223. With regard to physical examination of pupils attention was confined to 17 Government schools containing 4,988 pupils. The primary vernacular schools containing 59,977 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.
224. In the year under review 6,538 medical examinations were made of which 5,776 were routine inspections and 762 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.
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(3) medical treatment with regard to (a) general diseases, (b) defects of ear, nose and throat, (c) eye defects.
(4) health instruction and propaganda.
(5) office work, i.e., correspondence, reports, statis-
tics, etc.
219. With the limited staff available for the purpose it is only possible to deal with a small part of the total hygiene work calling for attention, and this applies equally to inspection of premises, examination of personnel, treatment of disease and general health instruction and propaganda.
220. With regard to inspection of premises 848 visits were paid to buildings in which it was proposed to establish verna- cular schools and concerning which application had been made to the Education Authority for registration. It not infrequently happens that several visits have to be paid to one building to ensure that the conditions. demanded as a precedent to registra- tion have been carried out.
221. 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.
222. During the. year a sanitary survey of 320 private schools in the Victoria urban area was carried out by a Sanitary Inspector specialy lent for the purpose by the Sanitary Depart- ment. The data collected formed the material for a special report which was submitted to Government. The inspector was recalled to the Sanitary Department on the 1st of April, 1936.
223. With regard to physical examination of pupils atten- tion was confined to 17 Government schools containing 4,988 pupils. The primary vernacular schools containing 59,977 pups 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.
224. In the year under review 6,538 medical examinations were made of which 5,776 were routine inspections and 762 re-inspections. Adnormalities discovered at the time of routine inspection are classified into two groups, viz., defects in need. of treatinent, and conditions placed on an observation list for further consideration.
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