A Memorandum on the Medical Inspection of Children in Public
Elementary Schools has been published by the Board of Education. It lays down principles for the work which will begin with the New Year under the Education Act of 1907. The Act instructs local authorities to provide for the medical inspection of children about the time of their admission to school, and on subsequent occasions as the Board may direct ; and it also empowers these authorities to make arrangements for attending to the health and general condition of the children. The Memorandum now ordains that the work of inspection shall be performed in co-operation with the Public Health authorities, and under the direction of the Medical Officer of. Health, the whole system being under the control of the Medical Department of the Board of Education. The Memorandum does not profess to do more than establish a tentative system which may be expanded or modified accord- ing to experience. It is thought that three inspections during school life will be enough. The ideal of the Board of Educa- tion is that the education authorities should work together with the sanitary authorities in the cause of national physical development.
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