CHILDREN'S HEALTH.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 12, 14 July 1906, Page 2

CHILDREN'S HEALTH.

■ . 1 1. ■ ■♦' - Per Press Association. Dunedin, Friday. Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer, addressed the Education Institute today on the question of medical examination of school children. The scheme which he wanted the Institute to consider was one which relied mainly on the teachers. He had come to the conclusjgp between 15 and 20 per cent, of the children attending ordinary schools had something the matter with them, and he suggested the teachers would be able to mark off nearly all ailing children. Education Boards should join hands with tjte central authority and appoiut a qualified medical man to look over a list so marked off. by teachers. Another scheme was that if Education Boards aud the central authority paid £250 each they would be able to obtain tho whole time ami service of an expert who could travel through the country and medically examine school children. Tho difficulty about, this scheme ; waa expense, ami the travelling wepensoa would probably be more tnafSaJfpy. The inspecting officer would fi up a card where the child was^kfsjpve, indicating what he thought was the matter. The card would be sent to the parents who should be at liberty to take the child anywhere for treatment* It was resolved to approve of the scheme proposed by Dr. Mason, and the Institute undertook to give nim what support it could: