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HEALTH OF CHILDREN

AN IMPORTANT PROPOSAL

PARENTS TO PROVIDE TREATMENT

The Health Bill contains the following provision relating to tne medical examination of echcol children:—

"Any medical practitioner, or ottii-r oillcer authorised in t'liat behalf by the Minister, may at all reasonable times enter any public school, secondary school, sr technical high, school, and examine the children attending the .school, and may notify the parents or guardians of any such "child of any disease or bodily defeet from which the child may b« suffering. "Any parent or guardian of any child, who has been notified by, or by direction of, a medical practitioner or other officer acting under this section, _ that such child is suffering trom uny disease or bodily defect, shall forthwith obtain for such child suitable medical or surgical or deutal treatment, and if ho fails to take reasonable steps to obtaifi such treatment ho shall be guilty of an oflence against this Act." Tlio penalty for an offence against the Act is a fine of *210, with a further fine of ,£5 a day in the case of con* tinning offences.

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 290, 1 September 1920, Page 6

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184

HEALTH OF CHILDREN Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 290, 1 September 1920, Page 6

HEALTH OF CHILDREN Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 290, 1 September 1920, Page 6

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