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'We give these children three doses of High Potency Ostelin 200,000 Int. units at
two-weekly intervals, if possible, combined with a course of ultra-violet light treatment.
If this can be followed by a period of convalescence or at a boarding open air school in the
good weather the improvement in these cases is remarkable. In all this work we should
accomplish little without the help of the Children's Care Organiser who is always
there to explore all possibilities of help or to use to the utmost the vast facilities which
the Council has available for the benefit of the children.'
Ministry of Education returns call for information on all treatment known to have
been provided, whether by the Council or otherwise. Such statistics are necessarily
incomplete, since no figures are available from general medical and dental practitioners,
opticians or from the many hospitals that have no direct link with the Council's organisers.
Even at some of the co-operating hospitals, the medical records and documentation
adopted by the hospitals, for the purposes of their own returns to the Ministry of Health,
do not enable separate figures for the L.C.C. school pupils to be extracted. Care should,
therefore, be exercised before attempting to draw conclusions about the incidence of
defects or the extent to which treatment has been obtained from the figures that
follow:—
Type of clinic 1951 1952 1953 1954
*Vision New Cases 34,231 35,649 35,222 34,420
Attendances 86,758 91,693 92,511 94,176
*Orthoptic New Cases 1,435 1,401 1,517 1,410
Attendances 15,385 15,784 11,564 11,643
*Ear, Nose and Throat New Cases 7,289 7,769 6,301 6,439
Attendances 16,565 17,408 15,291 15,056
Audiology New Cases — 1,206 1,330 1,153
Attendances — 2,407 2,676 2,954
Minor Ailments New Cases 155,080 151,903 169,443 166,173
Attendances 1,005,549 954,532 794,263 757,220
Dental New Cases 82,564 93,823 116,499 129,712
Attendances 172,063 202,571 269,061 300,912
*Rheumatism New Cases 1,100 971 959 786
Attendances 9,202 7,988 6,936 5,681
Nutrition New Cases 1,380 1,151 1,144 1,090
Attendances 10,984 11,162 10,593 10,594
Special Investigation New Cases — 590 957 904
Attendances — 3,027 4,588 5,626
*Enuresis New Cases 1,267 952 808 592
Attendances 6,344 5,449 4,026 3,466
* Hospital and specialist services provided by boards of governors or regional hospital boards.
Treatment
statistics
Handicapped pupils
During the year 6,702 examinations were made to determine whether specialExaminations
educational treatment should be provided or whether it could be discontinued.