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MEDICAL INSPECTION RETURNS.
Year ended 31st December, 1937.
TABLE IV.
TREATMENT TABLES.
NOTES.
(а) The Tables should deal with all defects treated during the year,
however they were brought to the Authority's notice, i.e., whether by
routine inspection, special inspection, or otherwise, during the year in
question or previously.
(b) The heading "Under the Authority's Scheme" should include
all cases that received treatment under definite arrangements or agreements
for treatment made by the Local Education Authority and
sanctioned by the Board of Education under Section 80 of the Education
Act, 1921. Cases which, after being recommended for treatment or
advised to obtain it, actually received treatment by private practitioners,
or by means of direct application to Hospitals, or by the use of hospital
tickets supplied by private persons, etc., should be entered under other
headings.
(c) The tables cover all the defects for which treatment is normally
provided as part of the School Medical Service. Particulars as to
the measures adopted by the Authority for providing treatment for
other types of defect or for securing improvement in types of defect
which do not fall to be treated under the Authority's own scheme
and for which the Authority neither incur expenditure nor accept any
responsibility, together with a statement of the effect of the measures