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(7) FOLLOWING UP.
A summary of the "following up" work undertaken by your
school nurses is given herewith:—
Number of visits to schools for medical inspection 131
Total number of visits to schools 245

It will be noted that visits in connection with dental inspection
are included in the above table for the first time. This is because
during the year under review, owing to a rearrangement of duties,
the dental nurse now only does home visiting during certain holiday
times and the number of visits included in this table has actually
been carried out by the school nurses, the which work they have
not regularly undertaken heretofore.
It has also been found practicable to draw up routine letters
+0 send to parents in cases where they have failed to fill in the
dental consent forms or where for no very obvious reason they have
refused to consent to the work going on. The benefit of this system
we hope to be able to show next year.
The enormous drop in the number of home visits in connection
with uncleanliness inspections is explained as follows:—
During the year under review your school nurses report
there has been a much better attendance at the Clinic on the part
of children who have been excluded and that thus they have been
able to deal with these children at the Clinic instead of having
to follow them up at home.