View report page

12
A second large room is given over entirely to the
Dentist and the Eye Specialist on their visiting days.
It is fitted up with a dentist's chair and spittoon, a cupboard
for all the instruments required in his professional
duties, and with the appliance for the administration of
gas to the patients. A small portion of this room has
been partitioned off to make a dark-room for the Eye
Specialist to examine the children's eyes under the proper
conditions with his retinoscope. The length of the
room also proves suitable to the required distance for the
fitting of the proper lenses. There is also a small room
suitably furnished in which a child may, if not sufficiently
recovered after an extraction of teeth, lie down for
a short period of rest. This is called the Rest Room.
Apart from the main building a coach-house and
stable have been completely altered and re-fitted to form
an operating-room for the removal of Tonsils and Adenoids,
and a rest-room for recovery. This recoveryroom
has 6 beds with complete fittings, so that a child
can be made quite comfortable for the two hours necessary
for its supervision, and recovery after the operation
before it is taken home again. This building is lighted
by electricity and heated by hot-water pipes and radiators,
and makes a miniature hospital of which the Committee
may be proud.
The School Clinic is open for Minor Ailments every
morning from 9.15 until all the children have been seen
and attended to, usually about 11 or 11.30 o'clock.
The Dentist's visits are on Tuesday afternoon at 2
o'clock, and on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock—each
session lasting approximately 2 hours.
The Ophthalmic Surgeon visits the School Clinic
every alternate Thursday at 1.30, and sees the cases referred
to him by the School Medical Officer for opinion
and recommendation. The Committee have made arrangements
with a firm of Opticians to supply glasses at
a comparatively low figure, and in cases where the
parents are unable to pay even this amount they assist
them by part payment, and in a few cases spectacles are
supplied gratis.