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Medical Treatment.
as to the care of the children, recommending medical
attention where she considers it necessary or desirable.
Children in this group are those suffering from
malnutrition, anaemia, heart disease, bronchitis or
suspected tuberculosis. Special record-cards are made
out for all those children, notes of the nurses' visits,
of the advice given and of the subsequent progress,
including medical re-inspections, being duly recorded.
In this way the School Nurses are able to keep all
defective children under supervision and to see that they
are submitted for re-inspection at suitable intervals.
In connection with the general scheme of following
up and treatment 1,604 visits were paid by the School
Nurses to the homes of the children or to the schools.
Medical Treatment.
Review of the methods employed or available for the treatment
of defects and a statement of the ascertained results
of treatment.
(a) Minor Ailments.—-In Table IVa. is given the
total number of minor ailments treated at the School
Clinic and those treated privately or at hospitals.
The former group comprised 524 and the latter 37
children. Impetigo supplied the largest number of
cases and ringworm of the head the next. Both these
conditions are the cause of serious loss of attendance
from school and are at the same time conditions which
are most suitably treated at the School Clinic.
Daring the year the total attendances at the School
Clinic for the treatment of minor ailments totalled
5,315.