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inspected during the year. Of these the number found to require
dental treatment was 3,625 and the number actually treated was
2,547. These figures are a considerable improvement on those for
the previous year.
(h) Orthopaedics and Postural Depects.
Fifteen children were found to be suffering from crippling or
postural defects requiring treatment. All of these have received
orthopaedic hospital treatment or been under hospital observation
during the year, with the exception of two, both of which are incapable
of further improvement.
(i) Heart Disease and Rheumatism.
Evidence of cardiac abnormality was found in fifty-seven
children. In the majority of these cases there was no evidence of
organic disease, and among the twenty-five cases of organic disease
several were congenital cases. In the others the commonest cause
of disease was rheumatism, and in all, including these rheumatic
heart cases, forty-two children were seen suffering from rheumatism
during the year. In most of these cases the rheumatic pains were
only occasional and not very severe, but in several cases there were
definite attacks of acute rheumatism for which active treatment
at home or in hospital had to be obtained. All these cases of
rheumatism and heart disease are kept under regular supervision at
the School Clinic.
(j) Tuberculosis.
Only two cases of active pulmonary tuberculosis were seen in
school children during the year, both of which were admitted to
Sanatorium. Five children who had been in Sanatorium but were
now recovered or quiescent were kept under observation, and in
every case they were able to attend school. Twelve cases of nonpulmonary
tuberculosis, all of them quiescent or cured, were also
kept under observation.
VI.—FOLLOWING UP.
All defects discovered at medical inspection are reported to
the parents or guardians, with a request that the necessary treatment
be obtained as soon as possible. Later, visits are paid to the
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