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The corridors lead to the main waiting hall which has two direct entrances
near the pram sheds. The upper floor is reached by means of the main staircase
from the entrance hall.
On the left of the staircase are arranged the school treatment rooms consisting
of a minor ailments room, a waiting room, a doctor's room, an eye room, a record
room and a clinic room. All these rooms inter-communicate and can be used as
waiting, treatment, or consulting rooms, according to the needs of the moment,
an arrangement which will make for easy working.
On the right of the staircase are sited the rooms of the foot clinic and of the
dental suite in which there are two dental surgeries, a rinsing room and two waiting
rooms. Modern equipment is provided in the dental rooms, and in the rinsing room
which serves both, a range of specially designed basins at varying heights has been
installed.
There are two staff rooms, one on each floor. The upper and lower corridors
which run round the building give access to all the rooms and to the flat roof court.
It will be possible on occasion to use the flat roof as an open air solarium. Two
pram sheds have been provided at the rear of the building, one on each side.
There is accommodation for the parking of cars on entrance-ways at each side
of the building. Underneath these, air raid shelters, entered from the pram sheds,
are provided in the form of two 3 ft. 6 ins. wide trenches, constructed of re-inforced
concrete."
Toddlers Clinics.-—Toddlers clinics have been a well-established part of the
Council's health services for many years and there is certainly no occasion in Woolwich
for the often heard complaint of the neglect of the child between the ages of two
and five.
Two sessions a week are held at each of the Council's main centres and frequent
sessions at New Eltham, The Slade and North Woolwich. Examinations are made
in the birthday months.
The number of annual inspections made during the year was 1920, an increase
of 300 upon the number made during the previous year, which perhaps justifies
one in hoping that, ultimately, the large majority of Woolwich mothers will take
advantage of this service.
The findings at these examinations are summarised in the following Table
No. 78. They do not differ materially from those of previous years.
Dental caries remain the most prevalent serious defect found and the defect
for which it is most difficult to persuade the mothers to accept the treatment offered.