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Number of attendances for treatment at Dental
Clinics:—
(a) Elementary School Children 4,075
(b) Higher Education Children 1,358
(c) Other Dental Schemes 466
Number of attendances at the Eye Clinic 691
Number of spectacles prescribed 258
Number of attendances at Orthoptic Clinic 401
Number of attendances at the Orthopaedic
Clinic:—
(a) For Surgeon's consultations 412
(b) For treatments, massage and
exercises 2,003
2,415
Number of attendances at Ultra Violet Ray
Clinics:—
(a) North Clinic 1,211
(b) South Clinic 667
1,878
Staff.
Particulars of staff appear at the beginning of this joint
report.
Co-ordination.
The School Medical Service remains at the present time
linked with the Maternity and Child Welfare and general Public
Health services of the Borough, and an attempt is being made
to complete within a single record all that affects the family as
the unit in Public Health. How far this policy can be maintained
in the future will be determined by the pending
organisation of the National Health Services.
Hygiene of Schools.
No noteworthy changes or improvements could be undertaken
during 1945.