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(a) Medical supervision of scholars.
With the limited staff it is only possible for a small proportion of the school population to be medically examined.
In the period under review 5,802 medical examinations were carried out in eighteen Government schools, the remaining three Government educational institutions being of a special nature and not subject to medical inspection.
Some twenty-six per centum of the scholars examined were found to be suffering from defects of one kind or another, excluding dental or eye troubles.
Dental disease formed the largest group of defects met with. There is no School Dental Officer, consequently the persons affected have to seek private treatment.
Visual disorders came next in frequency, myopia accounting for nine tenths in this group. Myopia commonly develops between eleven and thirteen years of age and progresses throughout school life. Its incidence amounted to twenty-six per centum amongst scholars of all ages in the Government schools examined.
Pulmonary tuberculosis was detected or strongly suspected in seventeen out of 1,506 scholars examined for this condition, an incidence of just over one per centum.
Deformities of the chest and postural deformities of the spine were found to be common in entrants to Government schools.
Table IX gives some indication of the number of attendances of scholars at the various school clinics :
Table IX.
Violet Peel Health Centre 100 Special Clinic for ears, nose & throat... 396 Special Clinic for refraction 636 Yaumati School Clinic 670 Ellis Kadoorie School Clinic 978 Total 2,780Seventy-six visits were paid by the School Nurses to the homes of scholars for purposes of giving advice.
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(a) Medical supervision of scholars.
With the limited staff it is only possible for a small propor- tion of the school population to be medically examined.
In the period under review 5,802 medical examinations were carried out in eighteen Government schools, the remaining three Government educational institutions being of a special nature and not subject to medical inspection.
Some twenty-six per centum of the scholars examined were found to be suffering from defects of one kind or another, excluding dental or eye troubles.
Dental disease formed the largest group of defects met with. There is no School Dental Officer, consequently the persons affected have to seek private treatment.
Visual disorders came next in frequency, myopia accounting for nine tenths in this group. Myopia commonly develops between eleven and thirteen years of age and progresses through- out school life. Its incidence amounted to twenty-six per centum amongst scholars of all ages in the Government schools examined.
Pulmonary tuberculosis was detected or strongly suspected in seventeen out of 1,506 scholars examined for this condition, an incidence of just over one per centum.
Deformities of the chest and postural deformities of the spine were found to be common in entrants to Government schools.
Table IX gives some indication of the number of attendances of scholars at the various school clinics :---
Table IX.
Violet Peel Health Centre
100
Special Clinic for ears, nose & throat...
396
Special Clinic for refraction
636
Yaumati School Clinic
670
Ellis Kadoorie School Clinic
978
Total
2,780
Seventy-six visits were paid by the School Nurses to the homes of scholars for purposes of giving advice.
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