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TREATMENT.
Treatment is carried out in the Committee's own school Clinics and by
arrangement with general hospitals and special schools for the physically
defective.
(1) Minor Ailments and Skin Diseases.
The attendances at the Clinics during 1933 and the previous two years
were as follows:—
Pymmes Croyland
Park Road
Clinic. Clinic.
1931 27,755 20,441
1932 26,168 20,114
1933 27,736 21,036
(2) Visual Defects and External Eye Disease.
The latter complaints are treated at the Minor Ailments Clinic: special
cases are referred to the oculist, and are referred to in Table IV.
The oculist attends three times fortnightly: a few additional sessions
during the year are usually necessary to cope with the work.
A questionnaire to other Authorities in Middlesex referring to the number
of "eye" sessions, revealed the fact that the average number of school children
per eye session per week was 6,850.
Table IV shows that 490 children out of 585 obtained the glasses prescribed.
The failure to obtain glasses depends to a large extent upon the parents: it
is possible to obtain the glasses free provided the income of the parents comes
within a certain scale, but there is frequently an objection on the part of the
parents to fill in details on the necessary form of application: in other cases
they demur to having their wages verified by some responsible person at their
place of business.
(3) Defects of the Nose, Throat and Ear.
Dr. Dalby reports on these as follows:—"The excellent arrangements
made by the Committee for reference of cases for consultation with the specialists
at the North Middlesex County Hospital continues to work extremely well
and to give great satisfaction to the parents and myself.