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14
CLINICS.
For Children Under Five.
The Council has a Welfare Centre in Cornwall
Road (as well as a Branch Centre at St. Matthew's
Institute, Hereford Street) at which a variety of
work, including Infant Consultations, Dental Clinic,
Light Clinic, etc., is carried on. This work is discussed in the Maternity and Child Welfare Section
of this Report.
For School Children.
These are under the control of the London
County Council.
By the courtesy of Sir Frederick Menzies, School
Medical Officer, L.C.C., I have been furnished with
the following information concerning local arrangements for the medical treatment of school children.
" The Bethnal Green school treatment centre is situated
at the St. James-the-Less Dispensary, St. James's Road,
Bethnal Green. At this centre special departments are arranged
for the treatment of eye (refraction) cases, dental cases and for
children suffering from minor ailments.
" The ophthalmic surgeon attends the centre on one
session a week and during the year 485 children were treated.
Spectacles were prescribed in 312 cases and in 236 cases
spectacles were obtained.
" The dentist visits the centre on twenty-one sessions a
month, and the schools in the neighbourhood on one session a
fortnight to inspect the children's mouths. During the year
3,450 children were inspected in the schools and 2,600 or 75
per cent, were found to" require treatment. The number of
children treated at the centre was 1,578 and 2,970 attendances
were made.
" In the minor ailments department the doctor attends
on two sessions a week, and two nurses are in attendance daily.
During 1935, the number of children treated was 1,898, and
28,163 attendances were made."
DAY NURSERIES.
There is now only one Day Nursery in the
Borough, the Bethnal Green Day Nursery, Somerford
Street, which belongs to a voluntary society.