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Treatment.
During the year 1913 14 children received X-Ray treatment;
3 of these were excluded during the latter part of 1912,
the remaining 11 in 1913. All have returned to school. The
remaining 11 cases excluded in 1913 have been treated by
drugs, 3 of which only had returned to school by 31st December,
1913.
Tables A and B set out particulars for each child. The
most interesting point that emerges is that the average number
of school attendances lost by children suffering from
ringworm of the scalp was 447.3, as compared with 129.4 for
the year 1912, in the case of those treated by ointment, etc.,
and 77.9 as compared with 79 for last year (1912), in those
treated by X-Rays.
[It will be noticed that the average number of days lost
amongst the former group is very much larger than in the
year 1912, but the late Dr. Bywater particularly mentioned
that this number was abnormally low owing to a number of
slight and early cases, and was far below the number for 1911,
when the average loss of attendances was 454.4, and in 1910
the average loss of school days was 153.3.—J.R.P.]
The sum of 12s. 6d. was received from the parents in
respect of this treatment.