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case. The parents are required to contribute according to
their circumstances. No child required X-ray treatment on
account of ringworm of the scalp in 1938.
Fifteen children with ringworm of the body, thirty with
scabies, one hundred and fifteen with impetigo and one
hundred and ninety-four with other diseases of the skin
received treatment at the Minor Ailment Clinic.
(d) Visual Defects and External Eye Disease. Details
of the work of the Refraction Clinic are given in Table IV,
Group II.
This Clinic was formerly held every Monday afternoon.
In November the day was altered to Thursday afternoon in
order to allow of the establishment of a weekly session of the
Ante-natal Clinic at the Health Centre.
In 1936 alterations were made in the arrangements for
following up cases of defective vision. Prior to that date they
were re-examined by the oculist at the Refraction Clinic.
Now, however, as stated in section six of the Report, children
for whom glasses have been prescribed are followed up by the
school medical inspector at her periodical visits to the schools.
Arrangements are then made for children whose vision with
spectacles is 110 longer satisfactory to be re-examined at the
Refraction Clinic. The alteration has resulted in the number
of attendances at this Clinic falling from five hundred and
eighteen in 1936 to four hundred and thirty-four in 1938. The
congestion which formerly occurred has been remedied and a
considerable saving in expenditure effected without loss of
efficiency.