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116 Crippled Children.
6.—The facilities for detecting cases in the district
may be considered satisfactory. The teachers send
information to the School Medical Officer of all crippled
cases newly admitted or developing during attendance
at school, the School Attendance Officers and School
Nurses give information regarding cases reaching the
age of five and not attending school, as well as cases
which develop during attendance at school, and, lastly,
the Health Visitors put forward cases which they find
under school age.
A card index file has been arranged by which a complete
record is kept of all cases, and steps will be taken,
now that treatment is about to be provided locally,
to see that each child receives appropriate and continuous
treatment.
7.—If the treatment arranged for at the King Edward
Memorial Hospital develops along the proper lines,
and if an open-air school is established to deal with
all the children requiring special educational facilities,
the proper care of crippled children should be secured.
8.—As already indicated, crippled cases and the
circumstances of their crippling are ascertained by the
Health Visitors either at their homes or through the
Welfare Centre, by the Teachers, School Nurses and
Attendance Officers, by the routine medical inspection
at the schools and at the Inspection Clinic, records
of all cases being kept for reference and such supervision
as may be deemed necessary.
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Thomas Orr,
Medical Officer.
Town Hall,
Ealing, W. 5.
8th June, 1920.