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Country schools show less bad vision, there being only 4.2 per cent of bad vision in several schools.
225. So far tests have only been made in Government Schools but it is believed that matters are no better in the vernacular schools.
226. The children are sent to an oculist and supplied with glasses. Up to October the number seen was 205, and glasses supplied in 265 cases.
227. With regard to other defects free treatment was offered at the school clinics, at the Government Hospitals and at the Chinese Public Dispensaries.
228. A large proportion of the Chinese children inspected required some dental treatment. There being no school dentist notices were issued to parents to take their children to private practitioners. A Government School Dentist is very much needed.
229. Arrangements have been made whereby children suffer- ing from adenoids and enlarged tonsils can receive operative treatment at the Government Hospitals.
230. With regard to home visiting the nurses paid 442 visits to the homes of 150 cases.
The nurses also take the children to hospital for X-ray ex- amination and for the first time of special treatments. This has been found to ensure better attendance and less fright on the part of both child and relatives.
Home conditions are usually found to be unhealthy, ignorance being often more of a drawback to healthy living than poverty, but there is much overcrowding,
231. With regard to infectious diseases the Medical Officer of Health notifies the School Medical Officer of any school cases reported to him and vice versa. According to the School Medical Officer most of the cases in British Schools are reported but only one tenth of those in other schools. When we have sufficient home visitors to educate the mothers as to the importance of the subject we will get notification but not before.
232. Respecting school premises and equipment all Govern. ment Schools were inspected and reports made. Considerable improvements were effected.
233. The Central British School and the Kowloon Junior School were too crowded. New premises are badly needed for
the British children.
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234. Most of the subsidised schools and unaided schools, numbering altogether over 1,000, have not been visited owing to lack of staff. The majority of them consist of one or more rooms in an old or newer tenement house with inadequate closet accommodation. As a rule, the teachers welcome inspection and advice.
235. A most important part of the work done by this branch was the teaching of hygiene. Lectures were given to Vernacular teachers.
236. Hygiene is a compulsory subject for English teachers and courses in this subject have been established at the Educa- tion Department's Technical Institute.
237. During Empire Health Week a health exhibition was staged in the Hall at Ellis Kadoorie School and was well attended.
238. The School Medical Officer has established at head- quarters the beginnings of a health museum where are to be found posters, leaflets, pamphlets, lantern slides, etc., etc.
Labour Conditions.
239. There are no estates, plantations or mines and com- paratively few large factories. The majority of the urban labour- ing classes are engaged in matters connected with commerce, shipping or public works and the bulk of the remainder find em- ployment in shops or workshops or independent businesses. There is no need for recruitment of labour, the supply being sufficient to satisfy all demands.
240. Labourers find their own accommodation in the many tenements and lodging houses which exist in Hong Kong and Kowloon.
241. The Factories and Workshops Ordinance contains sec tions bearing on the health of factory workers. The Public Health and Buildings Ordinance also contains sections bearing on the health of factory workers.
242. Ordinarily there are no special arrangements for the medical care of labourers other than the Government Hospitals, the Chinese Hospitals, the Chinese Dispensaries and the Mission Hospitals. The total number of third class beds in these in- stitutions available for general diseases are about 1,000 or 1 to 750 approximately.
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