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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hornsey 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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Dental defects are attended to by three part-time School
Dentists, who put in a total of ten sessions of work per week.
Crippling defects and orthopaedic conditions have been referred
to the special Orthopaedic Hospitals and Departments in London,
but a schemc has been adopted, with the approval of the Board
of Education, for the treatment of these conditions at the School
Clinic and at the lloyal National Orthopaedic Hospital and its
Country Branch Hospital at Stanmore. This scheme will come
into operation when the Education Office is moved to its new
quarters at Beacon Lodge and a room is available for equipment
as an orthopaedic clinic.
OPEN-AIR EDUCATION.
Playground classes are hold in all the elementary schools
when weather permits and at the discretion of the teachers.
School journeys were undertaken by boys from Campsbourne
School to Epping Forest and to the Isle of Wight.
Boys from Highgate and boys and girls from Campsbourne
attended holiday camps by the seaside.