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prescribed for them, and of this number 262 had obtained the
spectacles by the end of the year. In addition 20 children are
known to have been dealt with for visual defects, by private practitioners
or in hospital, and 13 provided with spectacles. All the
children dealt with by Dr. Boden are seen by him at regular intervals
at the Clinic and in this way careful supervision is exercised over
all children for whom spectacles have been prescribed under the
Committee's scheme. Lists of the children who ought to be wearing
spectacles are kept at each school, and any alterations made in these
lists are notified to the head teachers. The Eye Clinic is held at
the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre in White Hart Lane.
(d) Ear Disease and Defective Hearing.
Like the Eye Clinic, the Ear Clinic is held at the Maternity
and Child Welfare Centre in White Hart Lane. The number of
children seen by Dr. Friel during the year was 151, of whom 18
were children under school age, and the total attendances made were 454.

In addition to these cases of suppurative ear disease, a large
number of children have been treated by Dr. Friel for catarrhal
inflammation and defective hearing. A very successful method of
treatment adopted in these cases is diastolisation, which gives
excellent results in reducing the inflammatory condition of the nasal
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