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74. Clinics are established in connection with the treatment of Government school children at Ellis Kadoorie and Yaumati Schools and the Violet Peel Health Centre, where the Medical Officers have their headquarters. There are also special clinics for visual disorders, and for ear, nose and throat.
75. The Medical Officers undertake also visits to private vernacular schools with a view to ascertaining and reporting upon the hygienic fitness of the premises for school purposes.
76. Detailed reports of the work done by the Medical Officers during the year will be found in the Medical Department Annual Report.
77. It is gratifying to be able to record that 11 of the Grant-in-aid schools have, at their own charges, established medical inspectional services on the lines of, if not entirely co-extensive with the system in use in the Government schools.
78. During the course of the year the Vernacular Inspec- torate methodically pursued the somewhat technical task of supervising the installation of latrines in the schools falling under their charge according to the requirements of the medical authorities; and by the year's end, with the exception of some 30 schools, the work had been completed.
79. The scheme for introducing Physical Training through- out the Government and Grant-in-aid schools proceeded according to programme with the result that it is now possible to claim that every boy and every girl, British, Indian or Chinese in all the urban schools, provided or aided, is receiving one hour's training a week as a part of the curriculum.
80. Apart from private instructors employed by some of the Grant-in-aid schools, the staff consists of 10 Chinese male and 2 Chinese female instructors locally trained, under the super- vision of fully qualified European Supervisors.
81. In the Vernacular Schools the contest for the Director's banner for the best physical training display by a squad of 45 inaugurated last year was repeated in December and a competition resulted.
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83. A table showing the results of the Hong Kong Univer- sity School Certificate Examination held in June is appended. Table VII.
84. The Hong Kong School Certificate Examination under the auspices of the Education Department was held for the first time in June. Altogether 721 candidates from Hong Kong schools entered and of these 423 were successful.
85. There was one Matriculation examination of the University of London in January. One Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Examination, one Final LL.B. Examination and one Matriculation Examination were held in June.
86. An examination for the School Certificate of Commer- cial Education of the London Chamber of Commerce was held in July and a further examination for one candidate in Shorthand was held in November.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND FEES REMITTED.
87. These may be either Internal Scholarships implemented by remission of fees or External Scholarships provided by individual benefactors or groups of benefactors.
88. Fees remitted in 1937, details of which are shown in Table V, amounted to $27,716.00. External Scholarships were of the approximate value of $10,000.00.
9th March, 1938.
G. R. SAYER,
Director of Education.
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