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Attendances and treatment are entered in a register and on
special record cards.
During the year under review, 2,199 individual children
attended.

Although fewer individual children attended the clinic, a
greater number of attendances have been registered. Treatment
during the first 14 days is free. Cases which require further
treatment are charged for according to the income of the parents.
No charge, however, is made in the case of necessitous children.
EYE CLINIC.
This clinic is held on Wednesday and Friday mornings at
the Town Hall. Cases are selected by the school medical
officers at the routine examinations in the schools, or are referred
by the teachers as "specials," and are then examined by
appointment.
The oculist has subjected to refraction 1,046 cases during
the year. Spectacles were prescribed under the Authority's
scheme in 995 cases, and in 934 cases were actually purchased.
Good work is being done especially in cases of squint, in which
it is essential to have early treatment.
The oculist also sees children suffering from external conditions
of the eye when they are referred from the school clinic.
A local optician contracts with the Council to supply spectacles
and attends at the Town Hall on Monday afternoons to
fit and to repair broken glasses.
DENTAL CLINIC.
The dental clinic is held every morning and every afternoon
at the Town Hall, Wednesday mornings and Fridays excepted.