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(c) Ophthalmic Clinic.
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 244 attendances at the 14 sessions held
during the year, 123 being new cases and 121 re-inspections.
Refractions numbered 102, and spectacles were prescribed
in 67 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.
Children for whom spectacles are prescribed are reinspected
by the School Medical Officer when he visits the
Schools each term.
The Head Teachers are periodically sent lists of those
children who should have their glasses in constant wear.
(d) Dental Clinic.
During the year four sessions per School Week were
devoted to Dental Inspection and Treatment.
In all, 19 half-days were given to Inspection and 151
to Treatment.
When necessary, a session is devoted entirely to those
requiring a general anaesthetic, when the School Medical
Officer attends to administer the nitrous-oxide gas. There
were 219 gas cases during the year.
Mr. H. A. L. Morris, the School Dentist, reports as
follows:—
" During the year the time given to Inspection and
treatment was four sessions of 2½ hours per school week,
directed to children aged 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, also the
children in the Physically Defective School, and " Specials "
(i.e., children not eligible for Routine treatment—referred
by School Medical Officer, etc.)
The programme of work for the year carried out the
progressive policy as in previous years, by the addition of an
age group. The work presented rather a formidable aspect