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In the past, in the more serious cases, we have been
able without much difficulty to secure treatment through
various voluntary agencies, but with greatly increasing
population we are at times embarrassed through lack of
some definite arrangement of reserved accommodation, or
subsidy to voluntary associations, to deal with the many
cases of mothers and babies who would greatly benefit by
convalescent treatment.
Minor Ailments.
The pre-school child has the benefit of the facilities
of the School Medical Service, and thus the policy of early
treatment tends to minimise the gross defects in the school
entrant. At the end of the year a routine medical
inspection of the child of four years of age was inaugurated
in order to correct any condition prior to entry to school
life.
One hundred and twenty-nine cases received treatment
at the School Clinic as follows:—
Minor Ailments 32
Tonsil and Adenoid Operations 14
Eye Defects 9
Orthopaedic 74
Dental Clinic.
Ninety-four children under five years of age, and 35
expectant or nursing mothers, received treatment at the
Dental Clinic.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Three cases were notified under the Public Health
(Ophthalmia Neonatorum) Regulations, 1926. Each case
received hospital treatment and completed treatment with
vision unimpaired.
Diarrhoea and Enteritis.
Seven deaths of children under two years of age were
recorded during 1934. In 1933 the mortality rate per
1,000 babies born in Bromley was five; for 1934 the rate