MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS
A NISW APPOINTMENT. A now apuointment, Superintendent of .Medical Inspection and Physical Education, under the Education Department, is announced. Tho medk'iil inspection of Rchool children has up to tho present linen carried on by district medical insnectors without a superintendent, and nhvsicul education lias been without a director since the decease of the late Mr. Kovd Garlick. liotlt Departments are now combined under one head, who will bo stationed in Wellington, and control the work throughout New , Zealand. Dr. i'lowir JI. AVilkins, Medical Inspector of Schools for Southland, is the new head.
The work of medical inspection and physical education of school children, which whs such a prominent feature in t)ii) uolicv of the Into Minister of Munition, the lion. J. A. Hαmin, is yet in its infancv. and is likely to comprise a mod deal more thi>. u at iirst sight appears. In the State schools tho Education Departim-nt handles tho bulk of tho i iiildren of New Zealand from the ago of live or six up to fourteen years, and has control of the physical welfare of many younger children from birth under the Special Schools' and Children's Welfare Brnnch. The superintendent, as the chief medical officer of the Department, presumably has chai'go of the health of all these children—in the wiiv of educative propaganda amoncot uarents, instruction of school children in elementary principles of hviricne. and the outlining; of the genoral enro of youiiK children under tho children's welfare branch. In this appointment we mav find a linking up of the uninue work of the Plunket. Society with fhe medical brnnch of education, and a carryiiiK on of Ihat society's work rishl through the period of childhood to ndult aw. Or. tVilkiiis is a irrndiiate of Dublin University, and previous io his iippointnient as medical inspector under the Kducalion Department, had been in uenernl nraclice in New Zealand since I!H3 ; Tlio public are at last becoming alive 'to die vital iinnorlance to the Slate of the physical well-heini; of the child, mid the enlhiKiiislic and uhle manner in which Dr. Wilkins has devoted himself to Im work in Southland gives every promise thai full nrivantsiKO will be taken of tho irreiil liowibiliticn which his present apnoinlment offers for Kiffguardiiiff die lionllh of ths lisiiig generation ef the tlniuioiwjw
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 58, 2 December 1919, Page 6
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385MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 58, 2 December 1919, Page 6
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