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The Clinics are open at 9 a.m. every week-day throughout the year for the treatment of
minor ailments at the following centres:—
Hounslow—Clipstone House, 92, Bath Road.
Heston—The Village Hall.
Isleworth—The Public Hall.
A Medical Officer attends the Clinics on the following days:—
Hounslow—Tuesdays and Fridays, at 10 a.m.
Heston—Thursdays, at 10.30 a.m.
Isleworth—Mondays, at 10.30 a.m.
Cases are referred to the Clinics from school medical inspections, or are sent in by Head
Teachers, School Attendance Officers, and Health Visitors. The majority of the cases, however,
are sent in by Head Teachers, who doubtless realise the value of prompt treatment in maintaining
a good school attendance.
1,049 cases of minor injuries, bruises, sores, chilblains, etc., and 293 cases of skin disease,
were treated during the year at the School Clinics.
Since the middle of 1929 the Minor Ailments Clinics have been kept open during school
holidays (except such general holidays as Christmas Day, Bank Holidays, etc.), but there is always
a considerable drop in the attendance when schools are closed, which points to the fact that, but
for the vigilance of Teachers and Attendance Officers during term time, many of the cases of
minor ailments would go untreated and neglected.

In addition to providing daily treatment for minor ailments, these Clinics also serve as
centres for the more detailed examination of special cases than the pressure at routine medical
inspections at schools will permit. Here again the calls upon the Medical Officer's time, particularly
at the Hounslow Clinic, have been so great that at the beginning of the year, it was
necessary to commence the two medical sessions per week at Hounslow, half an hour earlier,
but the large attendances frequently cause very late Clinics. However, that is all the extra time
the Medical Officer in charge of this Clinic can spare, and really a further half-day session per
week is indicated.
Ringworm of the Scalp.
Fifteen cases were treated by X-ray under our arrangements with Dr. Arthur (of Ealing)
during 1933. The Authority pays Dr. Arthur's fee of £1:1:0 per case, but parents are asked
to contribute 2/6 only, and in necessitous cases free treatment can be obtained on application to the
Education Committee
(d). Visual Defects and External Eye Disease.
Five hundred and eighty-one cases were submitted to refraction, compared with 537 in 1932,
531 in 1931, 443 in 1930, 413 in 1929, 297 in 1928. Spectacles were prescribed in 569 cases and
obtained before the end of the year in 559 cases.
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