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at the Clinic during School Terms, 6,678 attendances being
registered during the year.
(b) Tonsils and Adenoids.
The Scheme for the operative treatment of tonsils and
adenoids at the Kingston Victoria Hospital has worked
satisfactorily.
Fifty-nine cases were treated under this Scheme during
the year.
(c) Skin Diseases.
The treatment of impetigo, ringworm and other skin
diseases has been undertaken at the Minor Ailments Clinic.
(d) Vision.
Cases of defective vision are referred by the School
Medical Officer to the Oculist, who has prescribed spectacles
for 67 children during the year.
(e) Ear Disease and Hearing.
Minor ear defects in the cases of 14 children have been
treated at the Clinic; other ear diseases and deafness were
referred to private practitioners and hospitals.
(f) Dental Defects.
Of the 1,196 children requiring treatment found by the
School Dentist, 618 were actually treated, 455 being rendered
dentally fit before the end of the year.
Remarks by the School Dentist are given under the
paragraph on the Dental Clinic.
(g) Crippling Defects and Orthopœdics.
During the year 26 individual children received electrical,
massage and other forms of treatment at the Red Cross
Curative Post, Norbiton, making 1,859 total attendances.
The cost of the above out-patient treatment amounted
to £185 19s., towards which the parents contributed £22 9s.
Three children were admitted to St. Vincent's Orthopaedic
Hospital, Eastcote, for in-patient treatment at a total