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120 Medical Treatment.
were treated and cured by drugs. Twenty-nine cases
of ringworm of the body were found during the year.
Fifteen were treated at the School Clinic and fourteen
at home.
Scabies supplied 62 cases, 12 being treated by baths
at the School Clinic necessitating 19 separate bath
and 50 being treated at home in accordance with printed
directions supplied at the time of exclusion.
Of 464 cases of impetigo 215 were treated at the School
Clinic.
(e) External Eye Diseases.—Five cases were treated
at the School Clinic and 32 by private medical practitioners.
During the year a proposal was put forward for the
provision of operative treatment at the King Edward
Hospital for certain eye defects which cannot be dealt
with at the School Clinic. This proposal was adopted
by the Education Committee, and later sanctioned by
the Board of Education. In the course of the Oculist's
work, he occasionally comes across an extreme case of
squint which can be benefited, at least from the aesthetic
point of view, by operation, or a case of total
blindness of an eye, the removal of which would be
better for the child. Such cases it is intended to send
to the hospital, where operative treatment can be
obtained, and for which a charge of £2 2s. per week
for each patient during residence will be paid by the
Committee. Since this proposal Was sanctioned, only
two cases have been dealt with; one was a case of extreme
squint and the other a case of complete blindness
n one eye due to ophthalmia in infancy.