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School premises were disinfected when necessary. In all 23
school departments and 16 school classrooms were disinfected
during the year.
7. FOLLOWING UP.
There are nine school nurses, two of whom assist at the
Clinics only. The other seven attend at school medical inspections,
visit the homes of children found to be defective at medical
inspections or suspected to be suffering- from infectious disease.
Each of these seven school nurses has a district of her own in
which she is well acquainted with the schools, children and parents.
The parents of those defective children whom the Medical
Inspector considers require treatment or observation are visited at
their homes by the School Nurses within a few days of the inspection
at which the defects were observed, with a view to encouraging
the parents to obtain the appropriate medical advice or treatment
either from private medical practitioners, hospitals, or at the
different treatment clinics established by the Education Committee
in the Borough.
The nurses also follow up cases which are not responding and
endeavour to get the defaulting parents to obtain the necessary
attention to the child.