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FOLLOWING UP.
The School Nurses have paid 2,955 visits to the homes of children
in whom defects were found at medical inspection, and for special
investigation purposes.
MEDICAL TREATMENT.
During the year 1944 8,935 attendances were made for treatment
at the various clinics, and there were 10,574 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, 207 received operative
treatment during the year 1944, as against the figure of 473 for 1943.
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 department of the London Hospital. The treatment
of scabies at the Cleansing Centre has been continued successfully.
(e) External Eye Disease.
Sixty-one cases (90 in 1943) of external eye disease were treated
at the School Clinics.
(f) Vision.
During the year 1944 the Ophthalmic Clinic was held twice a
week. 180 accepted treatment in respect of visual defect during the
year 1944 (of these 3 children with markedly defective vision had not