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(c) Tuberculosis.
The arrangements for the treatment of Tuberculosis have
been continued on the lines fully set forth in the reports for
previous years.
(d) Skin Diseases.
For the most part these are treated at the General Clinic, but
some cases of chronic and of the rarer skin diseases are referred
to hospital.
Children suffering from ringworm of the scalp, which does
not readily respond to local treatment, are referred for X-ray
treatment.
(e) External Eye Disease.
Eighty-five cases (104 in 1936) of external eye disease were
treated at the School Clinics.
(f) Vision.
During the year 1937, the Ophthalmic Clinic was held on five
sessions per fortnight.
Four hundred and ninety-two accepted treatment in respect
of visual defect during the year 1937 (of these 15 children with
markedly defective vision had not been seen by the Ophthalmic
Surgeon) and, including 17 cases awaiting treatment at the termination
of the year 1936, 492 cases have been treated in the past
year.
A Sight-saving Class at Monega Road School was opened by
the Education Committee in June, 1928, 13 children are in attendance
at this class, and they are all kept under observation by the
Ophthalmic Surgeon at intervals.
Mr. S. C. Reeve-Flaxman, the Ophthalmic Surgeon, reports
as follows:—