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1,546 children were examined or treated for different conditions;
there were 3,962 attendances. Table IV. (a), Appendix A, indicates
the amount and nature of the work at the Centre.
Under "Miscellaneous" are included :—
Cases of rheumatism 25
Enlarged glands 35
Enlarged tonsils and adenoids 139
Other affections of nose and throat and other
ear affections 151
Heart disease 37
Lung disease 44
Nervous diseases 22
Debility and anaemia 137
In addition, 100 children for whom milk in school had been
prescribed were re-examined. There was also a large number of
children referred from the Tuberculosis Dispensary for observation
bv the School Medical Inspectors.
85 children out of the total of 137 suffering from ringworm of the
scalp were subjected to X-ray treatment.
Uncleanliness.
A brief account of the treatment of uncleanliness is given in
Table IV (E), Appendix A.
Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids.
(Table IV. (C), Appendix A).
The clinic for the operative treatment of these conditions
continued to be held at the Croydon General Hospital in accommodation
loaned to the Education Committee. During the greater portion
of the year the clinic was open on one afternoon each week, but to
meet the large number of cases referred for and awaiting treatment an
additional weekly session was arranged. The actual operations and
administration of anaesthetics are undertaken by tight local medical
practitioners working in pairs and in rota for three monthly periods.
303 cases were treated at the clinic, and, as in the previous years,
all those having dental caries were, prior to the operation, treated by
the Dental Officers at the School Dental Clinic. The number of
children treated for dental caries prior to operation at the throat clinic
was 304.
In the latter part of the year classes were commenced in which
instruction in the correct methods of breathing was given to children
who had recently been treated at the Throat Clinic. These classes are
held 111 a large room at the Central Polytechnic and conducted by
Miss Cooke. This form of after-care is a most important part of the
treatment of enlarged tonsils and adenoids, not only in teaching the
children again to breathe properly, but in assisting their quick return
to health after the more or less extended periods of general debility
consequent upon obstructive affections of the throat and nose.