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5.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The incidence of measles, chicken-pox, scarlet fever,
diphtheria, whooping cough and mumps showed a marked decline.
FOLLOWING UP.
The School Nurses have paid 390 visits to the homes of
children in whom defects were found at medical inspection,
and for special investigation purposes.
MEDICAL TREATMENT.
During the year 1940 3,170 attendances were made for
treatment at the various clinics, and there were 2,266
attendances for consultation with the Medical Officers.
(a) Minor Ailments.
An analysis of the chief minor ailments treated at
the School Clinics, and otherwise, will be found in Table IV,
Group I.
(b) Tonsils and Adenoids.
Of the children referred for treatment, 90 received
operative treatment during the year 1940. The scheme for
treatment remained the same as detailed in previous reports.
(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 the dermatological departments of the
London Hospital, East Ham Memorial Hospital and Queen Mary's
Hospital, 'Vest Ham.
(e) External Eye Disease.
Twenty-four cases (65 in 1939) of external eye disease
were treated at the School Clinics.
(f) Vision.
During the year 1940 the Ophthalmic Clinic was held
once a week from January to the 5th October and once a fortnight
from the 29th October to the end of the year. One hundred and
fifteen accepted treatment in respect of visual defect during
the year 1940 (of these 3 children with markedly defective vision
had not been seen by the Ophthalmic Surgeon) and, including 10
cases awaiting treatment at the termination of the year 1939,
122 cases have been treated in the past year. There are also
29 children who accepted treatment during 1939 and 1940 but who
pre evacuated and have therefore not been seen by the Ophthalmic
Surgeon in this Borough.