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room, and here it is that children are examined and
advice given, and if necessary passed over to the nurses
for attention.
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 appliances 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 recovery-room
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 2.30, and sees the cases referred
to him by the School Medical Officer for opinion