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and defects of vision, treatment is now provided at the School
Clinic under an arrangement made with the County Education
Committee. This work has now been done for almost two years,
with very satisfactory results. The dental work is done by Mr.
MacBean, part-time Dental Officer, and the eye work by Dr. Boden,
our School Ophthalmic Surgeon.
XVII.—PARENTS' PAYMENTS.
A small charge is made to parents for treatment given to children
at the dental clinic and ear clinic, but no charge is made for
attendance at the minor ailments clinic, although a box is always
available for voluntary contributions. Wherever possible, the full
cost of operations for tonsils and adenoids, of artificial sunlight
treatment, and of spectacles provided at the eye clinic is recovered
from parents. When the circumstances of the parents are such as
to make it difficult or impossible for them to meet the full cost of
the treatment provided, the case is reported to the Care and AfterCare
Committee and the sum charged to the parents reduced or
remitted.
XVIII.—HEALTH EDUCATION.
Teaching of hygiene based on the Board of Education's Handbook
of Suggestions on Health Education is included in the curriculum
and time-tables of all the Senior and Junior Schools, and in
many of the schools considerable attention seems to be given to
this important subject.
XIX.—SCHOOL CLINIC.
Before concluding this Report, I wish to remind the Committee
again of the unsatisfactory state of the School Clinic. The Committee
is well aware that the present clinic is a very poor structure,
which during recent years has become increasingly inadequate for
the steadily increasing amount of work which has to be carried out
in it. At times the overcrowding, when several clinics have to be
conducted at the same time, is so great as to hamper the work.
For several years the Eye and Ear Clinics have had to be held at
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