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them that necessary voluntary aspect that is so essential
to any State undertaking. No word of praise from me
can overstate their valuable services.
Milk in Necessitous Cases.
Assisted milk supply was granted to 127 individual
cases, who received a total of 10,338 pints of milk, and
18 lbs. of dried milk, during the period January to
December, 1931, at an approximate cost of £129.
Minor Ailment Treatment.
The facilities of the School Medical Services are
available to the pre-school child, it being the policy to
treat early in order to prevent gross defects in the school
entrant.
Tonsils and Adenoids.
Twenty-eight cases under five years of age received
operative treatment at the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic
under the approved minor ailment treatment scheme.
These cases are detained at the School Clinic after operations
for 24 hours, and subsequently are visited in their
homes daily by the health visitors for a period of seven
days.
This treatment is in the direction of prevention of
disease. Diseased tonsils require removal at as early
an age as possible. The extension of the School Medical
Service into the pre-school child is sound in principle.
Minor Ailments.
Fifty-nine cases received treatment at the School
Uinic for ailments such as skin diseases and minor
surgical injuries.
Orthopaedic.
Mr. H. J. Seddon, Orthoptedic Surgeon, has reported
on cases dealt with during the year in the School Medical
section of this report, and other details and statistics of
this Uinic, including maternity and child welfare cases,
are there dealt with.