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Willesden 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Cost of Eye Clinic.-—The estimated cost of an Eye
Clinic is as follows
C
| Oculist's trial case, including spheres, prisms, cylinders, coloured glasses, discs, trial frame, test types, sphere lenses, etc. | |||
| Linoleum, blinds, desk, etc. | |||
| Total | 0 |
A
| Salary of Oculist for attendance three hours per week | £100 | 0 | 0 |
| * Proportionate Salary of Nurse (scale £108—£138) | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| * Proportionate Salary of Third Class Clerk (scale ^80—^120).. | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Proportionate Rent Charge | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Cost of Spectacles and drugs | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| Miscellaneous... | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 |
* Vide Teeth.
Half of the above expenditure, both Capital and Maintenance,
is repayable by the Board of Education, so that the
actual charges to the Education Committee would be :—
Capital Account £30 0 0
Annual Maintenance Account 108 0 0
The attendance of an oculist three hours per week would
allow an average of eight cases to be dealt with per week,
or about 400 cases per annum. This number is below the
estimated number of 1,108 and 930 requiring spectacles in
1912 and 1913 respectively, but with an adequate system of
"following up," as indicated in my report on Medical Inspection—Administrative
Measures, it is not unlikely that a
considerable proportion of these would secure treatment from
other agencies.