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Dental Clinic 98
Eye Clinic 16
Orthopaedic Clinic 5
Tonsil and Adenoid Clinic 1
Parents' Payments.
The following charges are made upon parents for
treatment: —
Dental: 1/- for three months' treatment, including
gas extractions.
Tonsil and Adenoid Operation: 5/- per case.
Orthopaedic: 3d. per treatment for exercises, 6d. for
treatment for massage. Inpatient treatment, splints,
etc., according to means.
Eyes: Parents pay a special reduced cost for
glasses. 6d. per first attendance on Specialist's
examination.
Ultra Violent Ray treatment: 6d. per application.
Special Education: Weekly contribution according
to the income of the parents.
Health Education.
No special demonstrations or lectures are given on
this matter. The practical application of hygiene is
more important. Individual instruction to
parents on the care and feeding of young children continues,
and the response is a progressive one.
Special Inquiries.
Special investigations into enuresis of children and
certain skin diseases begun in 1938, but owing to the
national emergency, the work had to be discontinued
and cannot be recommenced until there is considerably
less disturbance to our normal efforts to improve the
health of school child. I am, however, submitting
Dr. Macdonald's report on his preliminary
tions:-