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distance or expense. The number of cases referred for removal of
adenoids and enlarged tonsils also declined. The aggregate of
attendances at the various Clinics shows the extent of their usefulness.
It is doubtful if many of the cases dealt with would have
obtained the treatment elsewhere. Children are not infrequently
referred by medical practitioners to the Clinic to obtain treatment.
The Minor Ailments Clinic.
This Clinic is held each morning at the Lodge Road
premises. One nurse is in attendance for the whole session and
a doctor attends daily to see cases referred to him. He does not
spend his whole morning here, however, going on either to
a school for a medical inspection or to another Clinic. The scope
of the treatment given is shown bv the table. Medical cases or
rases requiring surgical measures are referred to their private
doctor or to hospitals. The aim of this Clinic is to render first
aid and to treat the minor disabilities peculiar to school children,
and to advise what further measures mav be necessary.
A subsidiary clinic is held at 206, Selhurst Road on three
occasions weeklv. 423 children made 2,312 attendances during
1931.

I'rom this table it is seen that the average number of attendances
per child declined from 7.8 to T.3; the total attendances
r°se by 1,906, and the number of individual cases by 345.
Otorrhoea is one of the most difficult of all minor conditions in
school children to cure, this being reflected in the large number
°f attendances made for the remedying of this defect.