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Day Nurseries.
No Day Nurseries are open in the District at present.
School Clinics.
Minor ailments are prescribed for by the School Medical
Officer or a Medical Inspector once a week (Friday). The
School Nurses attend daily.
The Dental Surgeon attends four times a week.
The Ophthalmic Surgeon attends every two weeks as
required.
Particulars appear in the School Medical Officer's
Annual Report.
The School Clinic is held in specially adapted premises
at 17, Oakfield Road, Penge. The accommodation for the
treatment of minor ailments consists of two rooms (one a
waiting room) on the first floor.
The Eye Clinic was opened on the 1st October, 1925;
the room used by the Ophthalmic Surgeon is on the ground
floor, and there is a dark room opening from it. The waiting
room, used by his patients, is the same as that used by the
children with dental defects.
The room used by the Dental Surgeon is also on the
ground floor.
Tuberculosis Dispensaries.
Penge patients are treated at the Kent County Council
Tuberculosis Dispensary, Beckenham, on Tuesdays and
Wednesdays.
Treatment Centres for Venereal Diseases.
Patients are treated at the several London Hospitals
and the Croydon General Hospital.