MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLCHILDREN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81897, 30 November 1906, Page 4

MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLCHILDREN.

Ti:e Heal-h Department has brought forward an elaborate scutin? i >r Ue reyu'.ar medical in pection ut' s.-nuolcbiluicn. Tne Taranaki Board on ttedne day received a kUcr fr, m me \\t) ington Education Board -.hat: The proposals of trie C"ief He-alt.> Officer for the medical exanimauuu ci schoolchildren were befure th-' Board at is last meeting; and tne Board generally uf tiu p.op.sals, and re*o ved that an endeavor sruuld be made to arrange with and engage the services of a medical man wiio should devote the whole of his time to the medieal cxaminauuu ui the schoolcuildreu in the .iiree districts. The Chief Health Othixr had stated :hat services a competent man couid be procured for x.500, with traveling expenses, -ay £;oo or j[.2so, making £750 in all. He undertook to recommend the Health Department to bear U.f the ccsi, tiie remaining half to be borne by the Btard6 engaging the medical man. It has been suggested as a fair of payment that Weiling'on and Wanganui should each pay two-fifths and Taranaki one-fifth of the cost. Tne Wanganui Board had about 3 fifth more school, than VVe'lington, but on the other hand the number of children was considerably less. Under this aii'angement the contributions to the respective Boards Avuuld be a maximum of ,£l5O for Wellington and Wanganui, and £75 fur Taranaki

Mr Monkhouse said tbat Taranakis proportion was but one-tenth, whilst it; contribution was a fifth.

Mr Spencer (Chief Inspector) expained tne co 1 * was based on the number of the schools. Mr Monkhcuse : And wiL this medical man visit Hurimoana, Maugaroa, and all those places? Mr Spencer: He'll have to cut himself into half-a-dozen men to do it. Mr Faul. though; •'■-"■ Government should undertake th; work. The Board re-oived that- while in sympathy with the recommendation of the Chief Health Officer, it had no funds wherewith to join in the proyoed scheme.