During December, there Were 337 pupils absent the Municipal Schools through sickness out of a enrolment of 3999. This con-yess of B4 per cent. for all Muni~ pal schools during December, or an average of H.1 per cent. sickness rate in the F schools and 7.7 cent. in the Chinese schools.
Of the above total, only 20 eases were reported as due to Communicable Disease: Scarlet fever, 2: Measles, fever, The unusually number of cases of Commun Disease re= corded may be due to the fact that there were no School Nurses available for "Home Visiting" until December 28
School Clinlex~Only one of the Municipal Schools is now functioning in its own premises—the Northern District Primary School for Chinese Cunningham Read, and it has been found very dificult to find nitable accommodation for clinics in the leased premises where the other schools are functioning. Consequently, attendances for December were few. The same ix true of the Trachoma Clinics.
Individual Medical Inspection of School Children—This was recom menced on December 20, at the Northern District Primary School for Chinese. 71 pupils were examined. Only four were found physically "At" and the remainder were suffering (rom defects of varying severity.
Schoo! Inspection—The number of Inspections carried out by the st during the month sas as follows Granteaided Chinese Schools 322
Municipal Schools Surveys of proposed new premises 337
The Senior Health Inspector made limited survey of the condition of rant-aided Chinese schools. building located in the Northern and Eastern istriets, and it was possible to form a rough estimate as to the numbers of schools partially or totally des troyed, During the last week of December intensive visiting of schools was undertaken by the Junior Health spector in order to collect data of enrolment numbers, ete. for the 4th Quarterly Report.
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