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TODDLER SESSIONS.
This type of routine medical inspection continues to be popular
and has been generally accepted by the parents as a welcome and
valued service. When appointments cannot be kept the parents
invariably send a letter of explanation and ask for another appointment
to be made—this kind of co-operation we value very highly.
The routine examination of children between the ages of two and
five years is one of the most satisfying of all sessions to the Medical
Officer in charge, especially when seeing any individual child for the
second time. Few of these children are completely free from any
defect on their first visit (though Vitamin deficiencies are now almost
unknown). By remedying slight errors before they have time to
produce permanent damage, the doctor has the satisfaction of seeing,
three to six months later, not only an improvement in the general
condition of the child concerned, but also of observing the improvement
in other associated disorders which were merely threatening to
become defects at a later date, if neglected. A perhaps minor, yet
frequent, example is the filling of a tooth, with the apparently consequent