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NOTES ON TABLE IV.
(a) The Table should deal with all defects treated during the
year, however they were brought to the Authority's notice, i.e.,
whether by routine inspection, special inspection, or otherwise,
during the year in question or previously.
(b) This heading should include all cases that received treatment
under definite arrangements or agreements for treatment
made by the Local Education Authority and sanctioned by
the Board of Education under Sections 16 and 80 of the Education
Act, 1921. Cases which, after being recommended for treatment
or advised to obtain it, actually received treatment by
private practitioners, or by means of direct application to Hospitals,
or by the use of hospital tickets supplied by private
persons, etc., should be entered under other headings.
(c) If any treatment is given for more serious diseases of the
ear (e.g., operative treatment in hospital) it should not be recorded
here but in the body of the School Medical Officer's Annual
Report.
(d) The heading "Specials" in this Table relates to all
children inspected by the School Dentist otherwise than in the
course of the routine inspection of children in one of the age
groups covered by the Authority's approved scheme, namely, to
children specially selected by him, or referred by Medical Officers,
Parents, Teachers, etc., on account of urgency. The number inspected
in each age group should be separately shown, as well as
the total, but under "Specials" only the total number should be
given.
(e) It should be understood that all the cases entered under
this head are also entered under head c.
(f) A statement as to the arrangements made by the Local
Education Authority for cleansing verminous children and a record
of the cases in which legal proceedings were taken, should be
included in the body of the School Medical Officer's Report.
N.B.—Groups I.—V. above cover all the defects for which
treatment is normally provided as part of the School Medical
Service. Particulars as to the measures adopted by the
Authority for providing treatment for other types of defect (e.g.,
for orthopaedic treatment) or for securing improvement in types
of defect which do not all to be treated under the Authority's
own scheme and for which the Authority neither incur expenditure
nor accept any responsibility, together with a statement of the
effect of the measures taken, should be included in the body of the
School Medical Officer's Report. It is convenient for such particulars
to follow the headings of Table II.