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to have had treatment. By means of this information the School
Nurses are saved making unnecessary visits to cases in which treatment
is not urgent. These lists, which are to be considered private
and confidential, encourage the teachers to take an intimate
interest in the physical as well as the educational well-being of
the children.
Special lists are made of all children requiring dental, eye,
and nose and throat treatment which can be provided at the School
Clinic. These cases are followed up by the School Nurses and treatment
is advised. All other cases in which treatment is desirable
or in which observation is required, are visited in rotation by the
School Nurses, when advice to obtain treatment is given or directions
regarding hygienic supervision are repeated. During the year
the School Nurses made 1,801 visits regarding defective children.
MEDICAL TREATMENT.
Minor Ailments. —Table IV. indicates the number and nature
of the minor ailments which received treatment during the year.
It will be seen that 402 or 70 per cenw. were treated at the School
Clinic and 172 or 30 per cent, by private practitioners or at hospitals.
The total attendances at the School Clinic for the daily treatment
of minor ailments were 5,829, and may be detailed as follows :—
Ear Cases 1,130
Eye Cases 867
Dressings 19
Ringworm 135
Impetigo 2,736
Scabies 77
Others 865
Total 5,829