THIRD ANNUAL REPORT ON THE MEDICAL INSPECTION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH 1914.
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issued: 2016-03-22
issued: [1914]
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note: THIRD ANNUAL REPORT ON THE MEDICAL INSPECTION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH 1914. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUHBIfl. PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by William H. Cl-llin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1914. To His Honour Thomas Wilson Paterson, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia. May it please Youe Honour : The undersigned has the honour to present the Third Annual Report of the Department •of Medical Inspection of Public Schools for the year ending June 30th, 1914. All of which is respectfully submitted. HENRY ESSON YOUNG, Provincial Secretary. Victoria, B.C., July, 1911^. MEDICAL INSPECTION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Provincial Board of Health, Victoria, B.C., July, 1914. The Honourable Henry Esson Young, M.D., LL.D., Provincial Secretary, Victoria, B.C. Sir,—This is the second year in which examination of school-children in the Province has been carried out systematically, and the results are most encouraging. The returns in this report compare favourably with those of last year, but the greatest value of the work is not shown in figures alone. It must be remembered that the greatest number of defects occur in the junior children, and a new lot of young children not previously examined come into the schools every year. Medical inspection should therefore commence at infancy and not merely after the child enters school. From a public-health point of view medical inspection of school-children is only a part of the whole, the whole being the care of the child from the cradle to adult life. A number of private schools exist in our cities. For the greater part children attending these private schools come from the so-called better families, but physical defects are found among these even as in public schools, and these children are just as much entitled to the advantages of medical inspection. I beg to recommend that medical i…
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