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Owing to the building of the new Tiffin Boys' School,
it has become essential to vacate " Elmfield " at the end of
the year, and arrangements have been made to move the
Clinic to the first floor of the new building in Bonner Hill
Road, which is being erected as a Domestic Subjects Centre.
This will be a temporary occupation until permanent
accommodation can be provided for the Clinic and Offices
of the School Medical Service.
(a) Inspection Clinic.
The School Medical Officer holds his Inspection Clinic
on Tuesday and Friday mornings during School terms, when
he sees children referred to him by Nurses, Teachers, School
Attendance Officers, etc., advising as to their treatment and
disposal.
He also re-inspects children previously excluded from
School by him, and also those under treatment for minor
ailments.
(b) Minor Ailments Clinic.
The Clinic is open at 9.15 a.m. on week-days, when the
School Nurses carry out the treatment of minor ailments
under the direction of the School Medical Officer. No
charge is made, but a box is provided for voluntary
contributions.
(c) Ophthalmic Clinic.
Dr. Winifred Warner attends fortnightly on Wednesday
afternoons during School terms to deal with cases referred
to her by the School Medical Officer.
Those children who have errors of refraction attend the
Clinic three times a day on the Monday and Tuesday preceding
the meeting, and also on the same morning, for the
purpose of having atropine ointment applied by the School
Nurse.
There were 302 attendances at the 20 sessions held
during the year, 153 being new cases and 149 re-inspections.
Refractions numbered 101, and spectacles were prescribed
in 98 instances.
Parents are charged the cost price of spectacles, except
in really necessitous cases, when the Committee is prepared
to pay part or the whole cost of the same.