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Medical Treatment.
Daily Treatment.
The Clinic is open on school days for such cases as
otorrhoea, external eye disease, impetigo, ringworm,
etc., requiring treatment by the Clinic Nurse.
Ear Cases:
Number of Children Treated 127
Number of Attendant 1043
Eye Cases :
Number of Children treated 280
Number of Attendances 719
Impetigo, Ringworm, etc. :
Number of Children treated 311
Number of Attendances 3431
The total number of children treated was 718, and
the total number of attendances 5,193.
In connection with the general scheme of treatment
at the School Clinic 1,234 visits were paid by the School
Nurses to the schools or to the homes of the children
Dentai, Department.
During the year 22 school departments (twelve
schools) were visited by one or other of the School
Dentists, and the children between the ages of 6 and 8
years were examined. Of the total 968 children examined,
670 or 70 per cent, were found to require dental
treatment.
The following indicates the extent of dental treatment
administered during the year :—
Number of Children treated for the first time 320
Number of extractions under general anaesthetic
(nitrous-oxide gas) 876
Number of extractions under local anaesthetic 4
Number of extractions without anaesthetic 554