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Facilities for Treatment.
The arrangements made by the Committee for the X-Ray
treatment of riingworm, and also the work of the Dental
Clinic, are set out in this report. Advice is given by the
School Medical Officer in some cases for slight ailments which
the parents think too trivial for the expense of private medical
advice, and, if necessary, the Nurse supervises treatment. A
great many children obtain operative treatment of Tonsils
and Adenoids at the various London Hospitals, and an increasing
number appear to resort to the Finchley Cottage
Hospital.
Most of the children who were wearing spectacles had
had these prescribed at the eye hospitals. A large number
of children from this district obtain treatment at the G-reat
Northern Central Hospital, Hollo way Road, N.
The following table refers to those children who were
found to have defects at the time of the routine medical inspection
by the School Medical Officer, and who had not then
obtained treatment. It does not include children recommended
to obtain dental treatment, nor the number of minor
ailments which were not specially "followed up" given during
1913:—