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abnormality in health of a chronic character arises, concerning
which advice can be given or for which treatment may be received
at the Clinic. Among the conditions concerning which advice
is sought in this way are anaemia, chronic cough, heart disease,
nasal catarrah, adenoids or enlarged tonsils, defective vision, dental
caries and minor ailments.
When a mother wishes to take her child to the Clinic, all she
has to do is to tell the teacher who gives her a f6rm to present at
the Clinic which is open for such medical examinations on any
school da}r at 10 o'clock.
In this way, as much as in any other, mothers have been
taught to appreciate the value of medical inspection and particularly
the need for early treatment, and, still more, the value of hygiene
in the prevention of ill-health.
At routine inspection in the schools as many as 85 per cent.
of the entrants, 78 per cent. of the intermediates, and 67 per cent.
of the leavers were accompanied by at least one parent
CO-OPERATION OF TEACHERS.
Constant assistance and active co-operation are afforded by
the teachers in the scheme of school medical work, not only at the
actual inspection in the schools but in the following up of defective
children and in seeing that medical treatment is obtained. In most
cases the head-teacher is present at the medical inspection when
seme previous history of a child can be given to the medical inspector
or when the head-teacher can receive advice as to the care and
supervision of a child in school. The form sent to each headteacher
after medical inspection indicating the defective children
in the individual schools is most useful in facilitating the co-operation
of the teachers, who are kept informed of the physical progress of
each child and are able to ascertain from the parents if treatment
has been obtained or to urge the necessity of treatment in those
cases which require it.
The assistance of the teachers is most marked in the ascertainment
of mentally and physically defective children, in selecting
those children who should be examined at the School Clinic for
defective vision, defective teeth, enlarged tonsils and adenoids,