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fully, making them lie down on a table or form. Be 

 gentle, for if one child begins to cry all the rest will 

 follow suit out of sympathy, and that will be the end 

 of the examination crying is a catching complaint. 

 Try to find out what is the matter with the sick 

 children. Ask them whether there is any sickness at 

 home. If there is any fever amongst the school- 

 children, ask the master to keep a register of those 

 who are affected, and again carefully observe the 

 same children when making the next census. If this 

 is done throughout the town schools, the most inter- 

 esting facts will come to light. But examine the 

 healthy as well as the sick. 



It is not sufficient to inspect the European school- 

 children alone. Go into the native locations and look 

 at the children there. Perhaps malarial spleens will 

 be found, or " latent " yellow fever. Examine the 

 children in their houses or in the streets, and keep a 

 record of them. If there is malaria, a hunt for the 

 Anophelines must at once be instituted ; or if yellow 

 fever is suspected, it must be dealt with at once by 

 house fumigation, isolation and screening of the 

 sick, etc. 



This is the most interesting and gratifying form 

 of public health administration ; and all the time 

 there is the knowledge that progress is being made. 

 Inquiries may again be made of the factories, similar 

 to when taking the first fever census. Every six 

 months the examination of the town should be ac- 

 complished, and at the end of the year the fever 

 census must be taken in precisely the same way as 



