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THROAT CLINIC.
During the year a throat clinic was established for the surgical
treatment of enlarged tonsils and adenoids in school children. The
clinic is housed by the courtesy of the Croydon General Hospital in
one of the wings of the Hospital. The clinic is held weekly on
Thursday afternoons. The surgical work is done by a rota of eight
medical men, of whom two are on duty at one time. Two of the
health visitors attend the clinic acting as nurses.
The system of working is that cases with marked tonsils and
adenoids found at medical inspections are given the opportunity of being
operated upon at the clinic. When this is accepted the cases are
forwarded by the school nurse to the nurse in charge of the clinic,
who arranges for the attendance of the children for examination by
the surgeon, the surgeons operating on the children during the week
following the first examination, and the children come up to the clinic
on a third occasion (seven days after the operation) for inspection by
the surgeon who operated. Instructions are issued to the parents in
each case as to the importance of breathing exercises as after treatment.
These instructions are also given to the school teacher in
charge of the child.
The clinic was opened in June, 1918, and from that date to the
end of the year 147 cases were operated upon—an average of 7.3
patients per session.
SCHOOL TREATMENT CENTRE
AND
SPINAL REMEDIAL WORK.
TREATMENT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Total number of new cases 840
Total number of attendances 4104
The Centre is as heretofore open daily for the treatment of minor
ailments. One of the medical staff is present on two mornings each
week and a nurse every morning to carry out the treatment advised.
In the school year the new cases averaged 16.5 per week.
RINGWORM.
Ringworm in school children has been treated at the School
Treatment Centre, and also by Dr. Critchley when X-ray treatment
was advised and accepted.