[Report 1945] / School Medical Officer of Health, Northumberland County Council.

  • Northumberland (England). County Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / School Medical Officer of Health, Northumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The regulations provided that :— (a) Every pupil who is admitted for the first time to a maintained school shall be inspected as soon as possible after the date of his admission ; (b) every pupil attending a maintained Primary School shall be inspected during the last year of his attendance at such a school; (c) every pupil attending a maintained Secondary School shall be inspected during the last year of his attendance at such a school; and (d) every pupil attending a maintained school or County College shall be inspected on such other occasions as the Minister may from time to time direct or the Authority with the approval of the Minister may determine. It will be seen from the above regulations which were imple¬ mented in January, 1946, in this County, that in future children will be examined :— In Primary Schools :— (1) Upon admission—aged 5 years. (2) In last year of attendance—aged 10 years. In Secondary Schools :— (a) Modern Schools in last year of attendance—aged 13 years (aged 14 years when school leaving age is raised). (b) Grammar Schools in last year of attendance—aged 15 years or over. It is also proposed for the present, to examine Entrants to the Grammar School, to avoid the possibility of a scholar missing medical inspection between the ages of 5 years and 15 years. The examination of the leavers in the final year at school, may not allow sufficient time to correct any defects which may be noted at the medical inspection of the children in this Group. It will probably be necessary to arrange examination of vision between the age of 5 and 10 years, because vision is not, as a rule, tested with younger children, and it is felt that eyes should be tested before the age of 10 years.