MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1928, Page 17

MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE.

USEFUL TO HEADMASTERS. The need for headmasters of large schools having some slight medical knowledge so that they may be able to detect cases of infectious disease among the pupils under their care was stressed at a meeting of the Canterbury School Committees' Association by Mr. A. C. Maxwell, headmaster of the Phillipstown school. Mr. Maxwell contended that no members of the community were more concerned in the health of the school children than were the headmasters and the teachers. Under the present conditions the whole of the school work was disorganised, and it appeared that as time went on the health of school children was getting worse and worse. Hardly a year went by now without some break. The headmatsers were not up againsk Dr. Telford, but were anxious to assist him in what was a difficult time. The question arose as to what was the beet way in which they could be of assistance, and lie considered that there should be instituted a school medical diploma. (Applause.) Dr. Telford said that, while he could not agree with the whole of Mr. Maxwell's suggestion, be thought it would be a good thing if the head teachers of the larger schools acquired a general knowledge of the appearance of infectious diseases, so that they could detect them in the very early stages.