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So also, in the case of children affected with enlarged
tonsils and adenoids, whose parents had taken my
advice, and had these growths removed, either at your
School Clinic or one of the London Hospitals, there is
much benefit to the child's health. It is no unusual
thing for the parents to express their satisfaction and
pleasure that the advice had been followed, saying that
their child was like a different child altogether, after the
operation. The child was no longer so subject to colds
or sore throats, its general health had improved, and its
appetite was such that it was now ready and eager for
food.
These main points I have brought to your notice,
but there are many others, small, but significant, that
crop up daily in a School Clinic, of great importance to
the child's preservation in health.
The detection of disease in its early stages in these
young people is of great importance, and to be able to
avert its ravages in their young lives, must be of great
value to the nation as well as to themselves. A constant
stream of child life passes before one in the schools, and
who can tell or estimate the real value obtained by this
Medical Service? Only the future can do that, but I
look forward with confidence to it, that the present
efforts you are making, will result in a stronger and
healthier manhood and womanhood of the rising reneration.
In the meantime the children are being taught by
their regular attendance at the Clinic, to pay attention
to personal cleanliness, and learn those habits which are
necessary for the maintenance of health. They no
longer fear the dentist's chair, and are quite alive to the
importance of keeping their teeth clean. Thus their
steps being guided into the way of health in their young
days, it is to be hoped they will not forsake that way as
they grow older.