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Extractions with an anæsthetic 2/6 per child per
attendance.
Fillings 1/- for each filling
Dressings No charge.
Scalings No charge.
Silver Nitrate No charge.
Regulations Actual cost.
Plates and Crowns Actual cost.
Artificial Dentures Actual cost.
3. Where the total family income exceeds Each case to be
£5 per week. brought before the
Committee and
considered on its
merits.
4. The Committee decided to agree to the Board's suggestion
that in order to reduce the cost of collection, the
parent's payments should as far as possible, be taken at the
Clinics when the children attend for treatment.
5. The Board's suggestion that a box should be placed in
each Clinic in which parents who are able to do so can place
voluntary contributions over and above the fixed scale of
charges, having been tried and found unsatisfactory, the Committee
do not recommend its adoption.
6. The Committee are of opinion that the above Scale
of Charges should apply for a period of six months from this
date and be reconsidered if necessary at the expiration of that
period.
CLEANSING SCHEME.
The methods adopted for discovering and dealing with verminous
children have been fully set out in previous Reports, and no change
in the procedure has taken place during the year. All the children
are inspected at least once every term by the School Nurse, and the
following is a tabular statement of the work done: —
Total number of visits made to the Schools 205
Average number of visits to each School 41
Total number of examinations made by the School Nurse 14364
Number of individual children found unclean 330