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Minor Ailments.
One of the features of the year has been the continued and increased success
of the minor ailments clinic first opened in June, 1925. Here on Tuesday and
Friday afternoons certain ailments in mothers and children are dealt with which
tend to be neglected if left to home treatment and care only.
The number of patients attending has increased from 183 in 1920 to 236 in
1929, and the number of attendances from 369 in 1926 to 502 in 1929. Amongst
the children's ailments dealt with in the order of frequency were:—Otorrhœa,
conjunctivitis, impetigo, protruding umbilicus, sore buttocks, nasal catarrh,
constipation, tonsillitis and ringworm. Among the mothers, mastitis, varicose
veins, leucorrhœa and pyorrhoea have been the most common complaints to receive
treatment.
Medical Inspection and Treatment of School Children.
The medical inspection and treatment of children attending Public Elementary
Schools in Holborn is carried out by the London County Council.
The following treatment Centres are provided under the L.C.C. Schemes:—
(1) Finsbury Centre, Spencer Street, Goswell Road.
(2) Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital, City Eoad.
(3) Soho Centre, Gerrard Street.
(4) Lancing Street Centre, Lancing Street, N.W. 1.
(5) Cleansing Station (Scabies) Children's Baths, Central Street, E.C. 1.
Centres are also provided at the following Hospitals and Dispensaries:—
(1) St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
(21 Bloomsbury Dispensary.
(3) Central London Ophthalmic Hospital.
(4) Central London Throat and Ear Hospital.
(5) Dental Hospital.
(6) Homoeopathic Hospital.
(7) Hospital for Sick Children.
(8) Italian Hospital.
(9) Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital.
(10) Middlesex Hospital.
(11) Royal Free Hospital.
(12) Tuberculosis Dispensary, University College Hospital.
(13) University College Hospital.
We endeavoured to co-operate with the Education Authority by giving
infonnation respecting children suffering from infectious disease and child contacts
attending public elementary schools.
A suggestion was made that this co-operation might be extended by facilities
being given for the establishment at the Council's Centre, No. 10, John Street,
of a Medical Inspection and Treatment Centre for children attending the elementary
schools in the Borough. From a communication (March, 1929) received from
the Education Officer of the London County Council, it appears, however, that
there are difficulties in the way of the adoption of this proposal.