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SCHOOL TREATMENT CENTRE
AND
SPINAL REMEDIAL WORK.
TREATMENT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Total number of new cases 1018
Total number of attendances 5982
The cases dealt with are mostly minor ailments and children from
poor families who require continuous medical supervision.
On Monday and Saturday mornings each week the doctor is in
attendance and sees all new cases and such old cases as require it.
On these and the remaining four mornings of the week the Health
Visitor who is the nurse in charge of this work carries out the treatment
advised. As a general rule the attendance of the children receiving
treatment has been satisfactory. In some cases of ringworm
the home treatment has not been properly carried out, and when thjs
neglect is persisted in and the offer of X-Ray treatment is refused th e
cases are referred to the School Attendance Officer for further action.
The Centre, in this section of its work, has, in my opinion, fully
justified its establishment. It will be seen from the number of new
cases, taking 50 weeks as being the year, that there has been an
average of 20 new cases seen each veek. The real number of weeks
which we should take as a maximum is to, which approximately is the
number of school weeks per annum, for in the vacations the number
of children in attendance always diminishes very considerably and the
new cases dwindle to practically nothing. Tne average number of new
cases per week on this basis is 25. The value of the Centre is considerably
increased when it is recollected that it affords opportunities
of special examination of obscure or difficult cases met with at
medical inspections or specially referred to the school medical staff
RINGWORM.
Ringworm in school children has been treated at the Schoo
Treatment Centre, and also by Dr. Critchley when X-ray treatment
was advised and accepted.
TABLE E. xiii.
Totals.
Total No. of children treated Scalp 102
Body 40
142
No. of attendances Scalp 500
Body 66
56