PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 107, 27 June 1911, Page 6

PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN

OUESTION OF MEDICAL INSPECTION • (Per Press Association.) Wellington, Juno 2.. Tim- ■ question of medical inspection of school children was referred to by the Mon. G. Fowlds in an address .road at the hospital conference toiday. Although the necessity for such inspect ion is not, the Minister said, so aento as indho Old Land, the reports of medical officers show that same thirty per cent of the children attending the State schools need some form or other ol medical attendance. if advantage was taken of flic existing ..-machinery, legislative and otherwise, the medical inspection of school children could be put into operation for sonic .£25,000. 1 hat would moan that half tnat sum would come out of the ratepayers’ pockets. Against this, however, must be sot the expenditure saved in preventing disease. It w-as, however, not. only a question of pounds, shillings and pence. The duty of the Government was clear. A scheme that must make for a physically efficient community must sooner or later be taken in hand. Details of the proposed scheme would be outlined later by the Inspector-General of Hospitals.;