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Ealing 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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PARENTS' PAYMENTS.
Parents are called upon to make contributions towards the
cost of treatment provided for their children at the Health Centres.
For dental treatment a charge of one shilling is made, an additional
shilling being payable if gas is administered, while charges for
other forms of treatment are made in accordance with scales laid
down by the Education Committee. In necessitous cases treatment
is free.
When an application for treatment is accepted the child is
treated without payment at the time being insisted upon. Occasionally
the payment is deferred by the parents and the school nurses
have to make repeated visits before the money is paid and thereby
spend time which could be used to better purposes.
During the year the following amounts were paid for treatment:
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dental treatment | 246 | 15 | 0 |
| Throat operations | 9 | 16 | 6 |
| Spectacles | 148 | 7 | 8 |
| Treatment at Orthopaedic Hospital | 22 | 3 | 9 |
| X-ray treatment for ringworm | 2 | 6 | |
| Surgical appliances | 10 | 8 | 0 |
| Massage | 29 | 15 | 9 |
| £467 | 9 | 2 | |
| Payment from Maternity and Child Welfare Committee for treatment of mothers and of children under five years | 280 | 9 | 1 |
| £747 | 19 | 3 |
HEALTH EDUCATION.
A very full description of the activities concerned with health
education is included in the 1929 Report. At that time parties
of the older girls visited the Health Centres to see school medical
and child welfare work in progress, but with the increasing work at
the Centres this arrangement became inconvenient, and had to be