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Mental Deficiency.—Children who can benefit by instruction
in a special non-residential school are sent to the school in
Finchley, which is shared by Finchley, Wood Green and Hornsey.
Other conditions.—One hundred and fifteen children suffering
from minor injuries made 316 attendances at the Clinic
during the year, and 111 children with other skin diseases came
for treatment on 264 occasions. Altogether during 1922 there
were 705 children who came to the Minor Ailment Clinic for
treatment by the Doctor and Nurse; these children made 3,088
attendances. It is obvious that the Minor Ailment Clinic is
doing very good work, and is providing medical treatment and
advice for children who otherwise would be without it. The
children who attend the Minor Ailment Clinic come from poor
houses where medical treatment by a private doctor would be a
luxury that could not be afforded. Many of the ailments treated
and cured at the Clinic are of a nature which parents tend to
regard as trifling and of no importance; and, if it were not for
the Clinic, no medical treatment would be obtained for the child
with the sore eyes, discharging ears and other minor ailments.
GENERAL REVIEW OF HOME CONDITIONS
AND EMPLOYMENT.
Under this heading I have nothing to add to the remarks
which I made in my last Report.
ACTION TAKEN TO DETECT AND PREVENT THE
SPREAD OF INFECTION IN SCHOOLS.
This is, generally speaking, the same as last year. The
teachers, school attendance officers, nurses and medical officers
are always on the watch for possible cases of infectious disease,
and no doubt the good health of the school children during the
year was due, in part, to this carefulness.
The year under review was a non-epidemic year, in marked
distinction to the two or three preceding. We have suffered
from no epidemics in the schools, and only a few sporadic cases
of infectious diseases have been reported. It seemed at one