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Children still continue to attend the Clinics, suffering from skin diseases of both
acute and chronic types. The results of treatment have been satisfactory, but it
is still the practice to send the more chronic cases to the Skin Department of the
London Hospital with whom we co-operate, and we have reason to be satisfied
with these results.
The treatment of Ringworm of the Scalp is still undertaken by Dr. W. J.
O'Donovan at the London Hospital. Under this arrangement four school-children
were treated during the year.
(d) Visual Defects and External Eye Disease.—Visual defects and external
eye diseases are treated at your school clinics, and in this connection Mr. W. A.
Gray, F.R.C.S., continued as your consulting ophthalmic surgeon during the year.
Spectacles are provided through the Department at contract prices and in
necessitous cases are provided free of charge.
Particulars of the treatment of visual defects will be found on pages 171 to 174
and on pages 184 and 193.
This year it has been possible to see that every child referred for ophthalmic
attention to your Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon was again seen before the
expiration of twelve months, and I hope that this close co-operation will continue,
because I am persuaded that the development of the children from year to year
takes place not only in relation to the general physique, but in such localised parts
as the eye, etc., and consequently lenses may have to be changed frequently.
(e) Nose and Throat Defects.—During the year 318 school-children received
operative treatment for tonsils and/or adenoids, and of these 294 were carried out
under the Authority's Scheme.