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The question of operative treatment for Tonsils and
Adenoids, Circumcisions, etc., in the cases that cannot
afford the practitioner's fee, is repeatedly difficult to overcome.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Committee I hope
will, when the new central clinic is completed, undertake
such cases through the School Medical Service.
The baby requiring hospital observation or treatment is.
a difficulty not infrequently met with, and one which could
be met by the provision of one or two beds in one of the local
Hospitals. During the past year the Phillip Memorial Hospital
has successfully undertaken the treatment of two such
babies.
Boarded Out Children.
The inspection of boarded out children under the
Children Act, 1908, was transferred to the Council by the
Guardians, January 1st, 1925. Ninety-two such children
were registered and visited by Miss Brennand during 1925.
As a routine they are visited quarterly and reports made
thereon.
IX.—CONCLUSION.
The foregoing pages of the Report and the tables which
appear in the Appendix will, I hope, give some idea of the
year's activities of the Health Department, which in addition
carry out the extensive work of the School Medical Service.
They will also show, I believe, the direction of desirable
extensions of service. They certainly are beginning to show
the results of Public Health activities in past years.
It is worth notice that this saving of life and health
improvement of the people has resulted from an annual
expenditure on the rates of only 4½d. of the 12/- rate.
In spite of the fact that as far back as 1867 a local Board
of Health was formed because of the acknowledged necessity