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Children needing orthopaedic treatment attend the Red
Cross Post, Norbiton, under the visiting Orthopaedic
Specialist.
Dental inspection and treatment was carried out during
the year.
SCHOOL CLINIC.
The School Clinic is accommodated temporarily on the
first floor of the new building erected as a Domestic Subjects
Centre in Bonner Hill Road. This was described in last
year's Annual Report.
The new building under construction in Grange Road
will permanently house the Clinics, and it is anticipated that
it will be ready for occupation about April, 1931.
(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. Ivor Aubrey, the School Oculist, attends fortnightly
on Wednesday afternoon during School terms, to deal with
cases referred to him 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.