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17.
The following forms of treatment are provided free of charge at the
various Health Centres:-
1. Minor Ailment Sessions.
Minor Ailment Sessions at which a Doctor attends and
where many of the Special Examinations are conducted and
a variety of conditions of varying degrees of severity
treated.
Health Visitors Sessions where treatment for the less
serious conditions is undertaken, many new cases seen and
where necessary referred to a Doctor's session for further
investigation.
2. Orthopaedic Treatment.
For the remedying of crippling defects.
3. Ophthalmic and Orthoptic Sessions.
For the treatment of eye defects.
4. Speech Therapy.
For the treatment of speech defects.
5. Dental and Orthodontic Sessions.
(the latter being the correction of irregularities
of the teeth).
6. Aural Sessions.
For the treatment of car, nose and throat conditions.
In addition, the following forms of treatment are provided by arrangement
with outside Authorities:-
a. With the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stenmore
for the in-patient treatment of orthopaedic defects.
b. With the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital for the
in-patient treatment of eye defects.
c. With Redhill County Hospital and the Hendon Cottage Hospital
for the operative treatment of diseased tonsils and adenoids.
d. With the Tavistock Child Guidance Clinic for psychological
investigation and treatment.
It is not proposed to deal with each of those forms of treatment in
detail but only to comment where additions or variations have taken place.
Orthopaedic.
Experience of this work over a long period has clearly demonstrated the
need for the appointment of a Teacher of Remedial Exercises to work in the
Schools in conjunction with the Organisers of physical training and the
Teachers. By thus observing deviations from the normal at the earliest
stage and providing specialised forms of remedial exercises forthwith,
Incipient defects can be corrected without the necessity of their being
referred to the Orthopaedic Surgeon.