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(j) Crippling Defects.
15 cases of spinal curvature and other slight deformities
were referred for treatment. Including those
under treatment last year 21 were treated. 1 was
cured, 19 improved.
(k) Heart Disease.
Only 1 case of heart disease (associated with
Rheumatism) was found to require treatment. As
usual a considerable number of children with some heart
abnormality were put down for observation, but many
of these children have probably quite healthy hearts.
(1) anaemia.
18 cases were referred for treatment.
24 were treated during the year, 4 cured and 18
improved.
(m) Lungs (not including Tuberculosis).
6 cases were referred for treatment and cured.
school report.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria did not occur to any serious
extent among the scholars during the year.
Mumps was very prevalent during the 2nd, 3rd and 4th
quarters, and measles during the 4th quarter.
The action taken to control these diseases has consisted
of visits to the schools by myself and the nurses for the purpose
of examining children in affected classes, visits by the
nurses to homes in which cases have occurred and enquiries
regarding children absent from suspicious or unknown causes,
and the exclusion of children suffering from the diseases, and
of certain of their contacts.
In 1921, I reported to you as follows:—
" In the case of the minor infectious diseases, Measles,
Mumps, Chicken-Pox and Whooping Cough, 1