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Deformities of the chest and postural deformities of the spine are very common among entrants to Government schools.
92. The contract for the supply of spectacles to school children who subscribe to the "insurance fund" operated by the department was re-let during the year at slightly reduced rates. As the eye-examination of these pupils continued to be carried out by the Medical Officer of Schools it is possible again to record a considerable reduction in expenditure on this particular service. The purpose to which the saving has been put is described in para. 100 below.
93. 848 visits were paid to private vernacular schools with a view to ascertaining and reporting upon the hygienic fitness of the premises for school purposes.
94. The subsidised and unaided private vernacular schools may be grouped together. They are mainly concerned in primary education and receive pupils between the ages of 6 and 12.
The prevention of health defects has its greatest effect at this stage of school life, and it is at these schools that one finds children of the class most concerned in the maintenance and spread of ill-health.
95. The attention of the heads of all schools, English and Vernacular, was again drawn to the law requiring of all school children proof of successful vaccination (or insusceptibility) before admission to school; and they were invited, in so far as they had not already done so, to establish a routine for all future admissions so as to insure that the law remained in full effect.
96. The task of reducing the number of pupils in accordance with the new regulation introduced last year, requiring 9 sq. ft. of floor space (10 in middle schools) instead of 8 sq. ft. per pupil in urban schools, was methodically pursued throughout the year. Out of 700 odd vernacular schools 48 had still to reduce in January; in June the number had fallen to 21 and in September these 21 had all complied and no fresh case of excess had come to notice at the close of the year.
97. The small extension to the physical training programme foreshadowed last year duly took place, a young Chinese being put into training early in the year. This proving successful, a qualified European instructor on full time was engaged for a term of years in lieu of the two N.C.O.'s hitherto loaned by the Military Authorities; a training class was quickly collected, (thanks largely to the co-operation of the local Y.M.C.A.), and, as the year closed, 15 Chinese youths were either trained and taking classes or in full training.
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Deformities of the chest and postural deformities of the spine are very common among entrants to Government schools.
92. The contract for the supply of spectacles to school children who subscribe to the "insurance fund" operated by the department was re-let during the year at slightly reduced rates. As the eye-examination of these pupils continued to be carried out by the Medical Officer of Schools it is possible again to record a considerable reduction in expenditure on this parti- cular service. The purpose to which the saving has been put is described in para. 100 below.
93. 848 visits were paid to private vernacular schools with a view to ascertaining and reporting upon the hygienic fitness of the premises for school purposes.
94. The subsidised and unaided private vernacular schools ay be grouped together. They are mainly concerned in primary education and receive pupils between the ages of 6 and 12.
The prevention of health defects has its greatest effect at this stage of school life, and it is at these schools that one finds children of the class most concerned in the maintenance and spread of ill-health.
95. The attention of the heads of all schools, English and Vernacular, was again drawn to the law requiring of all school children proof of successful vaccination (or insusceptibility) before admission to school; and they were invited, in so far as they had not already done so, to establish a routine for all future admissions so as to insure that the law remained in full effect.
96. The task of reducing the number of pupils in accord- ance with the new regulation introduced last year, requiring 9 sq. ft. of floor space (10 in middle schools) instead of 8 sq. ft. per pupil in urban schools, was methodically pursued through- out the year. Out of 700 odd vernacular schools 48 had still to reduce in January; in June the number had fallen to 21 and in September these 21 had all complied and no fresh case of excess had come to notice at the close of the year.
97. The small extension to the physical training programme foreshadowed last year duly took place, a young Chinese being put into training early in the year. This proving successful, a qualified European instructor on full time was engaged for a term of years in lieu of the two N.C.O.'s hitherto loaned by the Military Authorities; a training class was quickly collected, (thanks largely to the co-operation of the local Y.M.C.A.), and, as the year closed, 15 Chinese youths were either trained and taking classes or in full training.
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