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A statement was submitted to the Sub-Committee by Dr.
Simpson as to the estimated cost of treatment provided for school
children during the year ending 31st March, 1923. The actual
cost for the year April, 1922, to March, 1923, has now been
checked, and is as follows:—
Clinic. Total Cost. Cost per attendance.
£ s. d
Eye 221 3/4.
Dental 601 5/4
X-Ray 207 £1/17/8 (£2/12/6
for complete treatment).
Tonsils and Adenoids 198 17/10 per operation.
Remedial Exercises 414 1/Cleansing
2 nd.
Minor Ailments 252 1/9
At present the only charge made is for dental treatment, where
the charge is 3d. per attendance and 1/- for extractions under
anaesthetic. The amount collected in the year ending March
31st, 1923, was £29 2s. 11d. In my report of the 26th June
last it was suggested:—
(1) That no charge should be made at the Eye Clinic,
as the Board regarded refraction tests as a part of inspection
and not of treatment.
(2) That no charge should be made at the Minor Ailments
Clinic, where the cases are such that, in the public interest,
it is desirable to get them remedied.
(3) Similarly, no charges should be made at the Cleansing
Station.
(4) That a charge might be made at the Tonsils and
Adenoids Clinic, at the X-Ray Clinic and at the Dental Clinic.
To these, the Clinic for Remedial Exercises might fairly be
added.
(3) That boxes for receiving voluntary contributions
should be provided in certain Clinics. These have now been
installed in the Clinics dealing with Minor Ailments, Dental
Treatment, Eye Clinic and Tonsils and Adenoids.
Assessment of Contributions.
In deciding- the method of assessing contributions, the following
points ought to be borne in mind:—
(1) It would be impracticable to ask the parents of each
child requiring treatment (or even a considerable portion of
these), to make a statement of income and to base the contributions
on such a statement—the procedure would be too
cumbersome to be of any value.