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Credit: The hygiene of school life / by Ralph H. Crowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![making compulsory a system of medical inspection of children in Public Elementary Schools by every Local Education Authority, which has been responsible for so great a change coming over the scene. In September, 1907, on the establishment of the medical department of the Board of Education, Dr. George Newman was appointed Chief Medical Officer, and this action was followed in November of the same year by the issue of a Memorandum on Medical Inspection (Circular 576). This document served as the Board's practical interpreta- tion of Clause 13 (1) (^) of the Act, which ran as follows :— The powers and duties of a local education authority under Part III. of the Education Act, 1902, shall include— [(«) Power to provide for children attending public elementary schools, vacation schools, vacation classes, play centres, etc.] {b) The duty to provide for the medical inspection of children immediately before or at the time of or as soon as possible after their admission to a public elementary school, and on such other occasions as the Board of Education direct, and the power to make such arrangements as may be sanc- tioned by the Board of Education for attending to the health and physical condition of the children educated in public elementary schools :—■ Provided that in any exercise of powers under this section the local education authority may encourage and assist the establishment or continuance of voluntary agencies and asso- ciate with itself representatives of voluntary associations for the purpose. The importance of this Memorandum, laying down as it did the principles upon which it was intended medical inspection should proceed in England, cannot well be over-estimated. Medical Inspection was placed in a broad and vigorous setting, and the unity of the life of the child, its home life and surroundings, its school](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21359453_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
