MEDICAL INSPECTION
SCHOOLS SURVIVE TO BE EXTENDED. Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON. July 22. Instructions have been given by the Minister of Health for an extension of the Health Department’s medical inspection service, at present in operation thronghoi i- primary schools, to secondary schools, as soon as financial provision can be made. The new scheme is to operate on the advice of the chief physical instructor of the Education Department, as a result of his visits to secondary schools, and consequent on school medical officers ascertaining the standard of physical fitness applicants for entrance to the teaching profession i,s not as high as should he. Moreover, the amount of remedial defect among them indicate that the suspension of the health of hoys and girls of secondary schools is inadequate.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1930, Page 5
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