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Following the initial inspection at least two - and sometimes
as many as three - further inspections were carried out for the
purpose of re-examining those children found to have a foot infect)
and to cover absentees, but it was disappointing that despite trea:
ment and advice (and after 22,000 _re-inspections) there were still
some500 known cases of Athlete's Foot, representing a large
reservoir of infection.
I would again like to express my grateful thanks to Head Tear
and their staffs for their ready co-operation in these inspections,
for exercising what supervision they could to ensure that children
carried out prescribed treatment - unfortunately supervision could
not be extended into the home.
I would also like to thank those parents who did co-operates
well by s upervising the home treatment.
TYPHOID FEVER
Owing to an outbreak of typhoid in Zermatt, Switzerland, at the
end of March, arrangements for school children to visit a neighbour
Canton were cancelled.
It is advisable that all children going abroad ir chool Parties
be protected against this disease.
SPECIALIST SERVICES
Eye Clinics
Dr. R.F.Jamieson, M.B., Ch.B., D.O.M.S., continues to attend
Central, Porters Avenue and Woodward Clinics. A: intments are
made as far as possible to suit patients and parents.
Cases dealth with were as follows:-
External and other diseases (excluding errors
of refraction and squint) 57
Errors of refraction (including squint) 1,051
Total 1,108
The number of pupils for whom spectacles w re prescribed was
618.
Miss Lewis, Orthoptist (whose sanctum is at present in upper
Clinic) , treated 132 schoolchildren during 1963.
Paediatric Clinic
Dr. T. Savage, Consultant Paediatrician, continued to hold
fortnightly sessions at Upney Clinic during 1963. From the following
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