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Delhi there are 6 whole-time and 5 part-time inspectors and one lady
doctor. In Assam Sub-divisional medical officers work as part time school
medical inspectors.
3. In the Punjab a number of schools in urban areas group together and
open a dispensary, while others are required to stock a few ordinary medi-
cines for ailments that can be dealt with on the spot. In the United
Provinces there are five central school clinics at Lucknow, Agra, Allahabad,
Cawnpore and Benares and many schools in rural areas keep village aid
boxes. All Anglo-Vernacular schools in the United Provinces are required
to stock a few ordinary medicines for treatment of ailments on the spot.
There are two school clinics in Delhi. In the rural areas of Delhi first aid
medical boxes are provided in some schools for the treatment of school
children. In the North-West Frontier Province a medicine chest is main-
tained at every school. In Bengal no arrangements for the treatment of
ailments at the spot exist, though students with delicate health are supplied
with Cod Liver Oil and Calcium Salts free of charge and about 100 poor
students with defective eye-sight given free spectacles every year. In
other provinces the children who need treatment are required to go to the
nearest hospital or dispensary.
4. Features peculiar to certain plans in vogue in the various provinces
may briefly be stated as follows. In the Bengal Presidency Medical Inspec-
tion of school children is confined to Government and Government
aided schools in the city of Calcutta. The students of the primary classes
in Calcutta and of both primary and secondary classes in Mofussil are yet
outside the scope of the existing schemes for medical inspection of school
children. The system as obtaining in Calcutta is inadequate and unsatis-
factory as three part-time medical officers can hardly cope with the work
of examining 8,000 students of 33 schools scattered over an area of about 10
miles. An extension and improvement of the scheme is recommended by
the local authorities. In the Punjab there is a separate scheme each for
urban and rural areas. In the urban areas a group of schools in larger areas
combine, engage a whole-time doctor, open a dispensary and conduct medi-
cal inspection and treatment of school children and teachers. In smaller
areas in urban centres every school is expected to arrange with some local
practitioner or hospital doctor to get every student examined once a year
and to get treatment and medicines for students suffering from any
ailments. A scheme for the medical inspection of school children in rural
areas was introduced as an experimental measure in the districts of
Gurgaon, Jullundur, Sialkot, Shahpur and Multan in 1926. Rural Dispen-
sary doctors are required to examine at least once a year and treat free
of charge students belonging to schools of villages where the dispensaries
are located. In Bihar the system of medical inspection of school children
is in force since 1920 and covers high and middle schools situated in places
where high schools exist. College students are medically examined under
arrangements made by the Governing Bodies of the Colleges concerned.
Since 1935 students of Middle Schools in rural areas are examined by the
neighbouring Dispensary Doctors under the direction of the District Board.
Health Staff. In Assam students of Government schools at District and
Sub-divisional Headquarters are inspected once a month.