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SPINAL REMEDIAL CLASS.
Children treated during year : 39 girls, 4 boys.
Discharged, 20 (not requiring further treatment).
Discharged, 1 (not advisable to continue).
Discharged, 1 (owing to irregular attendance).
Left school, 5.
Left district, 2.
Still attending class, 14.
Total attendances during year, 1390.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE.
At Routine Inspections 27 cases were found. The diseases in
question were:—Impetigo 7, Ringworm 2, Scabies 4, Eczema 1, and
13 not described.
In addition special visits have been made to certain schools by
one of the medical staff when there has been an unusual local
prevalence of any infectious disease.
Children with slight symptoms have been found in school as the
result of a general examination of the scholars, and by bacteriological
examination of selected cases diphtheria carriers have been detected.
It is now the practice when a school'has been closed for infectious
disease for one of the school doctors to visit the school when it reopens
to discover and exclude any hitherto unrecognised cases of the
disease or any child shewing suspicious signs of infection.