Excerpt from The Medical Inspection of Girls in Secondary Schools The Education Act of i87o compelled every child to enter the schools. Many of them were ill-fed. Often through ignorance, occasionally through the carelessness of their parents, children suffering from various pathological but remedi able conditions were attending school, though unable to profit properly from the instruction given. It became evident that the money spent in Education was to a large extent wasted. Various authorities began to take the matter up, and in 1891 the London School Board appointed a medical officer. In 1893, Dr. James Kerr, whose name stands out most prominently in the history of medical inspection of school children, was appointed to be the school doctor of the Bradford School authority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.