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On the whole the results for the year may be considered highly
satisfactory. The more serious cases are certainly less frequent than
formerly, and the number of children excluded from school at the
end of the year was only 82 as compared with 136 twelve months
previously. Of the 392 new cases 273 were treated at the Town
Hall, 63 by application of X-rays, 210 by drugs, while a further 32
of the previous year's cases were also given X-rays. Altogether
1,390 attendances were made by children at the Town Hall in connection
with the treatment of this disease.
The methods adopted for the treatment and supervision of ringworm
have been so fully described in previous reports that it is unnecessary
to discuss them further on this occasion.
TREATMENT OF EYE DEFECTS.
As already mentioned, the new organisation did not come into
force until 1910. During 1909, however, I was instructed by the
Committee to obtain prices for the supply of suitable spectacles for
school children at a fixed price. Samples and prices were secured
from reliable opticians, who undertook to supply spectacles equal in
quality to the sample submitted, and in accordance with the prescription
given to the patient. All the samples received were compared
by the ophthalmic surgeon, with a result that an arrangement
was entered into with Mr. J. F. Wolfle to supply school children at
the following prices:—
Spectacles with spherical lenses 1/9
„ with piano-cylindrical lenses 2/9
„ with sphero-cylindrical lenses 3/9